Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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• .-1 Introduction: Building an American Memory of Literature, 1750-1850.-2 Remembering Literature in Early America: Transatlanticism, Cultural Memory and Its Media.-3 Virtual Museums: The Literary Magazine and Transatlantic Periodical Culture.-4 Of Gems, Beauties and Relics: Anthologies in Early America.-5 Early Forms of Literary Historiography in America: Literary Histories as Narrative Anthologies.- Conclusion

Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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• .-1 Introduction: Building an American Memory of Literature, 1750-1850.-2 Remembering Literature in Early America: Transatlanticism, Cultural Memory and Its Media.-3 Virtual Museums: The Literary Magazine and Transatlantic Periodical Culture.-4 Of Gems, Beauties and Relics: Anthologies in Early America.-5 Early Forms of Literary Historiography in America: Literary Histories as Narrative Anthologies.- Conclusion