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Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, this collection examines material and visual cultures alongside literary studies. Intended for researchers in literature and in visual and material cultures, this collection challenges single-subject boundaries by red
List of contents
Introduction, Daniel Maudlin; transatlanticism Transatlanticism, Past, Present and Future: A Brief Overview, Paul Giles; Chapter 1 Bloodlines and Abortions: Heredity and Childhood in Hawthorne, Maeve Pearson; Chapter 2 Transatlantic Mobility: European Pleasure Meets American Ambivalence in Henry James’ The Europeans, AnaMaria Seglie; Chapter 3 Double Crossings: Black Yankees, Pauline Hopkins and the Atlantic World, Laura Doyle; Chapter 4 Bound for Boston: The Significance of New England as the Point of Entry for Visitors from Britain, Adam Hallett; Chapter 5 That Eternal Ghost of Trade: Anglo-American Market Culture and the Antebellum Stage Yankee, Matthew Pethers; Chapter 6 Over a Century of Shipwrecks: American Child Readers and Robinson Crusoe, Karen Sánchez-Eppler; Chapter 7 Chairs, Cradles, Cupboards and Dykes: ‘Scottishness’ in the Furniture of New England, David Jones; Chapter 8 Visualising Thanksgiving and Other Colonial Entanglements in New England, Stephanie Pratt; Chapter 9 The Most Marvellous of Foreign Countries: Americans and the Construction of the English Idea of Home, 1870–1910, Tanis Hinchcliffe; Chapter 10 Domestic Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in Old England and New England, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina;
About the author
Daniel Maudlin is Associate Professor in Architectural History and Theory and Robin Peel is Associate Professor in English at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Summary
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, this collection examines material and visual cultures alongside literary studies. Intended for researchers in literature and in visual and material cultures, this collection challenges single-subject boundaries by red
