Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Anglo-American Relations and Intertwined Identities

Howard LeRoy Malchow

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350562653
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern British History
• Index: History

Ranging through the long nineteenth century, this book explores the evolving cultural relationship between Britain and the United States during this period. From language, speech and racial attitudes to imaginings of the Western frontier, travel memoirs, the role of theatre and Anglophilia and Anglophobia, it shows how actors on both sides of the Atlantic expressed understanding of themselves and their not-so-foreign Other.

Tracing the ways in which these cultural activities served to imagine, shape, confirm and maintain cultural topographies, it shows how they constructed Anglo-American differences which endure today. It challenges narratives of fixed national identity by emphasising cultural borrowing, hybridity and shifting perspectives in an era of faster, easier transatlantic and American continental travel, and promotes an understanding of how these identities were both entrenched and challenged.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• PREFACE
• Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World
• 1 Divided by a Common Language
• 2 Theatre/Theater
• 3 Tableaux of Race
• 4 The Far West: Imagining, Seeing, Performing
• 5 Transatlantic Birthright: “A Pilgrimage of the Heart”
• Summation and Epilogue
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint