Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies

Leslie Elizabeth Eckel is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston. She is the author of Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (2013). Her essays have appeared in books and journals such as Atlantic Studies, Transatlantica, Common-place, Arizona Quarterly, and ESQ. Her current book project, “Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures,” explores the linguistic networks of utopian writing in the long nineteenth century. Clare Frances Elliott is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is interested in transatlantic literary connections in the long nineteenth century and is the co-editor with Michael Patrick Cullinane of International Perspectives on Presidential Leadership (2014) and (with Andrew Hook) of Francis Jeffrey's American Journal: New York to Washington 1813 (2011). She is completing a monograph on William Blake’s reception in the US.

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• Foreword, Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott; Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies, Paul Giles; Part I: Atlantic Cultural Geographies; 1. The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson, Leonard von Morzé; 2. From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World, Juliet Shields; 3. London’s Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals 1808-1830, Joselyn M. Almeida; 4. Emerson’s Atlantic States, Christopher Hanlon; Part II: Atlantic Mobilities; 5. Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett, and Read, Eve Tavor Bannet; 6. ‘We are where we are’: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment, Sinéad Moynihan; 7. Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson; Part III: The Black Atlantic; 8. Writing Race and Slavery in the Francophone Atlantic: Transatlantic Connections and Contradictions in Claire de Duras’s Ourika and Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal, Susan Castillo Street; 9. Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic, Leslie Elizabeth Eckel; 10. Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery, Yogita Goyal; Part IV: Atlantic Genders and Sexualities; 11. The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil, Jennifer Frangos; 12. ‘Local locas’: Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena, Ivonne M. García; 13. Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay’s Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Daniel Hannah; Part V: Reform and Revolution; 14. Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements, and US Writers: 1837-1861, Brigitte Bailey; 15. Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World, Clare Frances Elliott; 16. Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation, Barbara Green; Part VI: Atlantic Exchanges; 17. An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature, David Greenham; 18. Frances Hodgson Burnett and the ‘American Girl’ in England, Sarah Wagner-McCoy; 19. Music, Language, and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams’ Voyage to Pagany and ‘The Desert Music’, Daniel Katz; Part VII: Atlantic Ecologies; 20. ‘Calcutta still haunts my Fancy,’ or, the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature, Kirk McAuley; 21. ‘More Savage Than Bears or Wolves’: Animals, Colonialism, and the Aboriginal Atlantic, Kevin Hutchings; 22. Reading the ‘Book of Nature’: Emerson, the Hunterian Museum, and Transatlantic Science, Samantha Harvey; 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism, Susan Oliver; Part VIII: Atlantic Events; 24. Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Adam Piette; 25. ‘O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag’: Bob Dylan, The Beatles and T. S. Eliot’s Transatlantic Encounters, Christopher Gair; 26. Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel, Catherine Morley; Selected Bibliography.