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Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies

About the Book Series

Focusing on the long nineteenth century (ca. 17501900), this series offers a forum for the publication of scholarly work investigating the literary, historical, artistic, and philosophical foundations of transatlantic culture. A vital field of interdisciplinary investigation, transatlantic scholarship contextualizes its objects of study in relation to exchanges, interactions, and negotiations that occurred between and among authors and other artists hailing from both sides of the Atlantic. As a result, transatlantic research calls into question established disciplinary boundaries that have long functioned to segregate various national or cultural literatures and art forms, challenging as well the traditional academic emphasis upon periodization and canonization. By examining representations dealing with such topics as travel and exploration, migration and diaspora, slavery, aboriginal culture, revolution, colonialism and anticolonial resistance, the series offers new insights into the hybrid or intercultural basis of transatlantic identity, politics, and aesthetics. Please note, this series is done commissioning and will no longer be taking submissions.

3 Series Titles


Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

1st Edition

By Amanda Adams
November 25, 2016

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 argues that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time ...

The Atlantic Enlightenment

The Atlantic Enlightenment

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano
November 15, 2016

Transatlantic studies, especially during the enlightenment period, is of increasing critical interest amongst scholars. But was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This interdisciplinary collection harnesses the work of some of the most prominent figures in the fields of literature; intellectual, ...

Transatlantic Sensations

Transatlantic Sensations

1st Edition

By John Cyril Barton, Jennifer Phegley, Kristin N. Huston, a Preface by David S. Reynolds
October 10, 2016

Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate ...

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