A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture Across four par

During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based e

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of

This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "

The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, B