Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Anglo-American Relations and Intertwined Identities

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 imagi...