Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Foreword vi
4. Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies 1
5. I. Atlantic Cultural Geographies
6. 1. The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson 17
7. 2. From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World 31
8. 3. London’s Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals, 1808–1830 45
9. 4. Emerson’s Atlantic States 59
10. II. Atlantic Mobilities
11. 5. Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett and Read 75
12. 6. ‘We are where we are’: Colm Tóibín’s BROOKLYN, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment 88
13. 7. Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel 103
14. III. The Black Atlantic
15. 8. Writing Race and Slavery in the Francophone Atlantic: Transatlantic Connections and Contradictions in Claire de Duras’s Ourika and Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal 119
16. 9. Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic 131
17. 10. Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery 146
18. IV. Atlantic Genders and Sexualities
19. 11. The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil 163
20. 12. ‘Local locas’: Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena 176
21. 13. Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay’s Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night 189
22. V. Reform and Revolution
23. 14. Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements and US Writers: 1837–1861 205
24. 15. Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World 220
25. 16. Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation 235
26. VI. Atlantic Exchanges
27. 17. An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature 253
28. 18. Taming the American Shrew: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s New Woman and the Transatlantic Courtship Plot 266
29. 19. Music, Language and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams’s Voyage to Pagany and ‘The Desert Music’ 282
30. VII. Atlantic Ecologies
31. 20. ‘Calcutta still haunts my Fancy’, or the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature 297
32. 21. ‘More Savage than Bears or Wolves’: Animals, Colonialism and the Aboriginal Atlantic 311
33. 22. Reading the ‘Book of Nature’: Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science 325
34. 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism 340
35. VIII. Atlantic Events
36. 24. Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov’s Pale Fire 357
37. 25. ‘O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag’: Bob Dylan, the Beatles and T. S. Eliot’s Transatlantic Encounters 371
38. 26. Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel 384
39. Contributors 397
40. Selected Bibliography 403
41. Index 406