Urban Identity and the Atlantic World

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Leonard von Morzé

      Pages 1-21

3. Spatial Projections of Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Atlantic Urban Transfers in Early Modernity

      • Jorge Correia

      Pages 25-40

   3. From Colonial Subjectivity to “Enlightened” Selfhood

      • Paul B. Niell

      Pages 41-60

   4. Urban Driftwood

      • Karin Vélez

      Pages 61-76

4. The Site of Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. “The Plymouth Rock of Old England”?

      • Keith Mason

      Pages 79-100

   3. Romancing Post-Napoleonic Britain

      • Joselyn M. Almeida

      Pages 101-122

   4. Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia

      • Bonny Ibhawoh

      Pages 123-139

5. Identity and Imaginative History

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Leonora Sansay’s Anatopic Imagination

      • Michael J. Drexler

      Pages 143-157

   3. Transatlantic Loops and Urban Alienation in Mary Shelley’s Lodore

      • Cynthia Schoolar Williams

      Pages 159-173

   4. The Spanish Archive and the Remapping of US History in Washington Irving’s Columbus

      • Lindsay DiCuirci

      Pages 175-192

6. Cultures of Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. “Meere Strangers”

      • Coll Thrush

      Pages 195-218

   3. Theater in the Combat Zone

      • David Worrall

      Pages 219-235

7. Back Matter

   Pages 237-272

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The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.

• history
• history of literature
• identity
• Imagination
• rhetoric
• seventeenth century

"Fay and von Morzé's perspective-changing collection explains how larger sociospatial forces shape cities and their inhabitants. This edition presents a new direction for urban, Atlantic, and cultural studies to reveal an exciting interdisciplinary panorama." - Stephen Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Jorge Correia, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal Lindsay DiCuirci, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Michael Drexler, Bucknell University, USA Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Bonny Ibhawoh. McMaster University, Canada Keith Mason,University of Liverpool, UK Paul Niell, Florida State University, UK Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia, Canada Karin Vélez History at Macalester College, USA Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Cynthia Schoolar, Tufts University, USA David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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