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Book SynopsisHow are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most PhDs continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on Companion Website; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Tracing Currents and Joining Conversations; Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins; Part I Curricular Histories and Key Trends; 2. On Not Knowing Any Better; Susan M. Griffin; 3. Transatlantic Networks in the Nineteenth Century; Susan David Bernstein; 4. Rewriting the Atlantic: Symbiosis, 1997-2014; Christopher Gair; Part II Organising Curriculum Through Transatlantic Lenses; 5. Anthologising and Teaching Transatlantic Romanticism; Chris Koenig-Woodyard; 6. 'Flat Burglary'? A Course on Race, Appropriation, and Transatlantic Print Culture; Daniel Hack; 7. Dramatising the Black Atlantic: Live Action Projects in Classrooms; Alan Rice; Part III Teaching Transatlantic Figures; 8. The Canadian Transatlantic: Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson; 9. Kate Flint Frederick Douglass, Maria Weston Chapman, and Harriet Martineau: Atlantic Abolitionist Networks and Transatlanticism's Binaries; Marjorie Stone; 10. 'How did you get here? and where are you going?': Transatlantic Literary History, Exile, and Textual Traces in Herman Melville's Israel Potter; Andrew Taylor; 11. Americans, Abroad: Reading Portrait of a Lady in a Transatlantic Context; Sandra A. Zagarell; Part IV Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context; 12. Making Anglo-American Oratory Resonate; Tom F. Wright; 13. Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Poetry; Meredith L. McGill, Scott Challener, Isaac Cowell, Bakary Diaby, Lauren Kimball, Michael Monescalchi, and Melissa Parrish; 14. Teaching 'Transatlantic Sensations'; John Cyril Barton, Kristin Huston, Jennifer Phegley, and Jarrod Roark; 15. Prophecy, Poetry, and Democracy: Teaching Through the International Lens of the Fortnightly Review; Linda Freedman; Part V Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism; 16. Transatlantic Mediations: Teaching Victorian Poetry in the New Print Media; Alison Chapman; 17. Digital Transatlanticism: An Experience of and Reflections on Undergraduate Research in the Humanities; Erik Simpson; 18. Twenty-First-Century Digital Publics and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Public Spheres; Tyler Branson; Part VI Afterword; 19. Looking Forward; Larisa Asaeli, Rachel Johnston, Molly Knox Leverenz, and Marie Martinez; Index.
