Transatlantic literature and transitivity, 1780-1850: subjects, texts, and print culture

This text makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world.

The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and religion.

In addition, the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres, including, for example, the essay, the guidebook, the travel narrative, the periodical, the novel, and the poem, can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions, transformations, and border crossings.