Böcker i Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies-serien

Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socio-environmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement", literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism.

Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. "It also looks at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.

Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams examines tours by British and American authors, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens.

Was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This collection offers insights into the conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing; addressing questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, historical, and religious contexts.

The gulf between "literature" and "popular literature" is exacerbated by reluctance to consider national literatures with respect to downmarket and transnational dissemination. Buchanan's analysis is situated within discussion of changes in the novelistic use of historicity to describe and direct the shape and progress of the nation state