Imagining the British Atlantic After the American Revolution

Michael Meranze is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Saree Makdisi is a professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

‘This edited collection provides novel perspective and much food for thought on the revolutionary Atlantic and its complexity.’ - Enrico Dal Lago (Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016) "The editors have curated an insightful, thought provoking collection that is sure to inspire a multitude of future academics to re-conceptualize the heterogeneity that existed in the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution."- Gregg French (H-Net Reviews published on H-USA February 2018)

• Introduction: Division, Renewal, and Repetition – Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (Michael Meranze And Saree Makdisi)1. Transoceanic Spectacles of Dissection: London’s Anatomical Art in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania (Ari Sarafianos)2. Disavowed and Reprobated: Anti-Quakerism in an Age of Revolution (Sarah Crabtree)3. British Atlantic Catholicism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction (Catherine O’Donnell)4. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Two Lovers: Convergence and Divergence in Trans-Atlantic Literary Radicalism (Andrew Cayton)5. Susanna Rowson’s Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Translation: A Tale of Three Cities (Jenna Gibbs)6. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s Romantic Retreat: Magic, Mesmerism, and Prophecy, 1776–1802 (Iain McCalman)7. From Radical Enthusiasm to Liberal Melancholia: Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Modern Chivalry, Part 1 and 2 (Anthony Galluzzo)8. Penal Reform and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century England: “A Prison Must Be a Prison” (Randall McGowen)9. When the Atlantic Went Global: A Note on Slavery and Rebellion in Fletcher Christian’s Pitcairn (Edward G. Gray)