The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies -- I. Atlantic Cultural Geographies -- 1 The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson -- 2 From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World -- 3 London's Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals, 1808-1830 -- 4 Emerson's Atlantic States -- II. Atlantic Mobilities -- 5 Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett and Read -- 6 'We are where we are': Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment -- 7 Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel -- 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 -- 9 Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany's and Frederick Douglass's Countercultural Atlantic -- 10 Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery -- IV. Atlantic Genders and Sexualities -- 11 The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil -- 12 'Local Locas': Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena -- 13 Queer Atlantic Modernism andMasculinity in Claude McKay's Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night -- V. Reform and Revolution -- 14 Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements and US Writers: 1837-1861 -- 15 Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World -- 16 Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation -- VI. Atlantic Exchanges -- 17 An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature.

18 Taming the American Shrew: Frances Hodgson Burnett's New Woman and the Transatlantic Courtship Plot -- 19 Music, Language and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams's Voyage to Pagany and 'The Desert Music' -- VII. Atlantic Ecologies -- 20 'Calcutta still haunts my Fancy', or the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature -- 21 'More Savage than Bears or Wolves': Animals, Colonialism and the Aboriginal Atlantic -- 22 Reading the 'Book of Nature': Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science -- 23 Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism -- VIII. Atlantic Events -- 24 Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov's Pale Fire -- 25 'O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag': Bob Dylan, the Beatles and T. S. Eliot's Transatlantic Encounters -- 26 Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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