Juliet Shields is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820.

Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to our recognition of how regionalism continued to be a force both in Britain and in North America during the early national period. ... Shield's charting of the unfolding of archipelagic British literatures "in dialectical relation to their American counterparts" (127) adds an important dimension to our understanding of the transatlantic cultural matrix at the turn of the nineteenth century.

• Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies ; Chapter One: From English Empire to British Atlantic World ; Chapter Two: The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic ; Chapter Three: Scots and Scott in the Early Republic ; Chapter Four: Wales and the American West ; Chapter Five: The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism ; Conclusion: British Atlantic Worlds: Anglo-American, Colonial, and Archipelagic ; Bibliography

Juliet Shields is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820.

Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to our recognition of how regionalism continued to be a force both in Britain and in North America during the early national period. ... Shield's charting of the unfolding of archipelagic British literatures "in dialectical relation to their American counterparts" (127) adds an important dimension to our understanding of the transatlantic cultural matrix at the turn of the nineteenth century.

• Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies ; Chapter One: From English Empire to British Atlantic World ; Chapter Two: The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic ; Chapter Three: Scots and Scott in the Early Republic ; Chapter Four: Wales and the American West ; Chapter Five: The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism ; Conclusion: British Atlantic Worlds: Anglo-American, Colonial, and Archipelagic ; Bibliography

Juliet Shields is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820.

Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to our recognition of how regionalism continued to be a force both in Britain and in North America during the early national period. ... Shield's charting of the unfolding of archipelagic British literatures "in dialectical relation to their American counterparts" (127) adds an important dimension to our understanding of the transatlantic cultural matrix at the turn of the nineteenth century.

• Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies ; Chapter One: From English Empire to British Atlantic World ; Chapter Two: The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic ; Chapter Three: Scots and Scott in the Early Republic ; Chapter Four: Wales and the American West ; Chapter Five: The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism ; Conclusion: British Atlantic Worlds: Anglo-American, Colonial, and Archipelagic ; Bibliography