In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyse some of the most significant watersheds and faultlines that occurred in the period 1775-1815, a crucial era in the history of Euro-Americans relations. Tracing complex patterns of intellectual and cultural cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre-and post-Revolutionary cultures, the essays aim to increase out awareness of the degree to which the emergence of cultural nationalism in this period was essentially a transatlantic process - a process that was itself part of a larger circumatlantic cultural continuum.

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F.R. ANKERSMIT Professor of History, University of Groningen NANCY ARMSTRONG Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media, and Women's Studies, Brown University KLAAS VAN BERKEL Professor of Modern History, University of Groningen and Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences MARILYN GAULL Professor of English, New York University and Temple University LLOYD KRAMER Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill WESSEL KRUL Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Groningen ROBERT LAWSON-PEEBLES Senior Lecturer, School of English and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Academic Partnership at Exeter University MICHAEL LIENESCH Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CARLA MULFORD Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University LEONARD TENNENHOUSE Professor of Comparative Literature, English and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University.

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Notes on the Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction; W.M.Verhoeven Travelling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776-1812; L.Kramer Volney, Frankenstein , and the Lessons of History; W.Krul Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility; C.Mulford A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic; L.Tennenhouse International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749-1812; R.Lawson-Peebles Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel; N.Armstrong Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier; M.Gaull 'That Miserable Continent': Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of 'America' in Cornelis de Pauw; K.V.Berkel Secret Societies and Illuminati Infidels: The Counter-Conspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatism in America and Europe; M.Lienesch 'I will use no Daggers'! I will unfold a Tale-!: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin; W.M.Verhoeven Edmund Burke, Historism, and History; F.R.Ankersmit Index