Ryland Engels teaches English and Writing at The University of Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on nineteenth-century US and Transnational literary studies, critical theory and the essay as a literary form.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: 'Linked Hemispheres'1. 'A Dear Little Cosmology of Our Own': English Traits in a Global Context2. 'The Whole Continent Knows My Name': Transcendentalism and Latin America3. 'Disjoin'd and Diffused': North American Romanticism and Southern Africa4. 'New Earths, New Themes': American Idealism, Australia and the South PacificConclusion: The Shooting of the GulfBibliographyIndex

Ryland Engels teaches English and Writing at The University of Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on nineteenth-century US and Transnational literary studies, critical theory and the essay as a literary form.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: 'Linked Hemispheres'1. 'A Dear Little Cosmology of Our Own': English Traits in a Global Context2. 'The Whole Continent Knows My Name': Transcendentalism and Latin America3. 'Disjoin'd and Diffused': North American Romanticism and Southern Africa4. 'New Earths, New Themes': American Idealism, Australia and the South PacificConclusion: The Shooting of the GulfBibliographyIndex