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Interest in transatlantic literary study has intensified along with an impetus toward global studies pioneered by Paul Giles, Susan Manning, Paul Gilroy, and others. The long nineteenth century offers a crucial timeframe for transatlantic study, given this era’s radically increasing literacy and mass-circulation print, as well as enhanced transportation and communication systems and the rise of professional authorship.
To provide one foundational resource for teaching in this dynamic field, Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture (Edinburgh UP, 2015) outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources ranging from individual assignment descriptions to full course designs. The collection of essays by leading scholars and experienced professors from Canada, the UK, and the US is complemented by this website, which makes available appendices material from the collection’s authors (sample assignments, syllabi, teaching ideas, bibliographies, and more). The Teaching Transatlanticism website also invites resource submissions and news about work in the field from other current and future teachers of transatlanticism.
Below is the Table of Contents for Teaching Transatlanticism. Hyperlinks associated with individual chapter titles will take you to relevant online appendices for that essay; those materials are available only online. Hyperlinks for each contributor’s name will take you to an author bio.
Teaching Transatlanticism: Contents
Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins
Introduction: Tracing Currents and Joining Conversations
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Appendix A
Appendix B
I. Curricular Histories and Key Trends
Christopher Gair
Rewriting the Atlantic: Symbiosis, 1997-2013
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Susan M. Griffin
On Not Knowing Any Better
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Appendix A
Appendix B
Susan David Bernstein
Transatlantic Networks in the Nineteenth Century
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II. Organizing Curriculum through a Transatlantic Lenses
Chris Koenig-Woodyard
Anthologizing and Teaching Transatlantic Literature
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Appendix A
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Daniel Hack
“Flat Burglary”? A Course on Race, Appropriation, and Transatlantic Print Culture
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Alan Rice
Dramatising the Black Atlantic: Live Action Projects in Classrooms
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III. Teaching Transatlantic Figures
Kate Flint
The Canadian Transatlantic: Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson
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Marjorie Stone
Frederick Douglass, Maria Weston Chapman, and Harriet Martineau: Atlantic Abolitionist Networks and Transatlanticism’s Binaries
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Andrew Taylor
‘How Did you Get Here? And Where Are You Going?’: Transatlantic Literary History, Exile and Textual Traces in Herman Melville’s Israel Potter
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Sandra Zagarell
Americans, Abroad: Reading Portrait of A Lady in a Transatlantic Context
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IV. Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context
Tom F. Wright
Making Anglo-American Oratory Resonate
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Appendix
Meredith McGill, Scott, Challener, Isaac Cowell, Bakary Diaby, Lauren Kimball, Michael Monescalchi, and Melissa Parrish
Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Poetry
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Linda Freedman
Prophecy, Poetry and Democracy: Teaching through the International Lens of the Fortnightly Review
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Jennifer Phegley, John Cyril Barton, Kristin Huston, and Jarrod Roark
Teaching Transatlantic Sensations
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V. Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism
Alison Chapman
Transatlantic Mediations:Teaching Victorian Poetry in the New Print Media
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Appendix
Erik Simpson
Digital Transatlanticism: An Experience of and Reflections on Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
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Tyler Branson
21st-Century Digital Publics and 19th-Century Transatlantic Public Spheres
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VI. Afterword
Larisa Asaeli, Rachel Johnston, Molly Leverenz, and Marie Martinez
Looking Forward
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