Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself.

'...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.' Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

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Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

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1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed