The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900

Contents: Introduction, Daniel Maudlin Transatlanticism, past, present and future: a brief overview, Paul Giles Bloodlines and abortions: heredity and childhood in Hawthorne, Maeve Pearson Transatlantic mobility: European pleasure meets American ambivalence in Henry James' The Europeans, AnaMaria Seglie Double crossings: Black Yankees, Pauline Hopkins and the Atlantic world, Laura Doyle Bound for Boston: the significance of New England as the point of entry for visitors from Britain, Adam Hallett That eternal ghost of trade: Anglo-American market culture and the antebellum stage Yankee, Matthew Pethers Over a century of shipwrecks: American child readers and Robinson Crusoe, Karen Sanchez-Eppler Chairs, cradles, cupboards and dykes: the 'Scottishness' in the furniture of New England, David Jones Visualising Thanksgiving and other colonial entanglements in New England, Stephanie Pratt The most marvellous of foreign countries: Americans and the construction of the English idea of home, 1870-1910, Tanis Hinchcliffe Domestic slavery and the pursuit of freedom in Old and New England, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Bibliography Index.

Geography · Australian History and Society · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · 19th century · American and English · American literature · civilization · Comparative Literature · Culture diffusion · Culture populaire · English and American · English influences · English literature · Great britain · History and criticism · International relations and culture · Literature and society · Littérature américaine · Littérature anglaise · Littérature et société · Northeastern states · Popular Culture

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