Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. London and the Transatlantic Book Trade 25
5. Chapter 2. Furious Booksellers and the “American Copy” of the Waverley Novels 40
6. Chapter 3. The Irish National tale and the aesthetics of Union 62
7. Chapter 4. Washington Irving’s transatlantic revisions 85
8. Chapter 5. The Effects of Provinciality in Cooper and Scott 113
9. Chapter 6. Rivalry with England in the Age of Nationalism 149
10. Epilogue. The Scarlet Letter and the Decline of London 185
11. Appendix. The London Republication of American Fiction, 1797–1832 199
12. Notes 207
13. Bibliography 251
14. Index 273
15. Acknowledgments 285