This issue, guest edited by Ella Dzelzainis and Ruth Livesey, explores the transformative flow of texts, images and ideas back and forth between Britain and America in the long nineteenth century. The provenance of our lead image, Niagara Falls, from the American Side (1867), echoes this transatlantic movement. Painted by an American, Frederic Edwin Church, it was bought in 1887 by the Scottish emigrant, John S. Kennedy, who presented it to his native Scotland. Capturing the sublime and vast potential of America through its portrayal of a rainbow over the Falls, the picture now hangs in the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
Articles
Introduction: Transatlanticism: Identities and Exchanges
Ella Dzelzainis and Ruth Livesey
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A White Atlantic? The Idea of American Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Tim Barringer
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Response to Tim Barringer, A White Atlantic?
Kate Flint
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America on Display: Constructing and Containing Images of the United States
Ted Hovet
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George Augustus Sala and the English Middle-Class View of America
Peter Blake
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Beyond the Mohawk Warrior: Reinterpreting Benjamin West’s Evocations of American Indians
Julia Sienkewicz
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‘Have the elder races halted?’: British Socialist Readings of ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’
Kirsten Harris
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‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ and Whitman’s Early German Translators
Vanessa Steinroetter
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Forum
Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture
Isobel Armstrong
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James Tissot, 'Goodbye, on the Mersey': a Reading of the Transatlantic Journey
Vicky Greenaway
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Review
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 7 May – 26 July, 2009
Catherine Roach
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Book Review
'The Atlantic Enlightenment', edited by Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano
Felicity James
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'The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930', by Kate Flint
Rohan McWilliam
2009-11-09 Issue 9 • 2009 • Transatlanticism: Identities and Exchanges