Introduction. What is transatlantic literary studies?
Pt. I. The nation and cosmopolitanism
1. Copywriting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the nineteenth century / Claudia Stokes
2. The transnational turn : rediscovering American studies in a wider world / Robert A. Gross
3. Nineteenth-century United States literary culture and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe
4. National narratives, postnational narration / Donald E. Pease
5. Transnationalism and classic American literature / Paul Giles
6. The limits of cosmopolitanism and the case for translation
7. Between empires : Frances Calderón de la Barca's 'Life in Mexico' / Amy Kaplan and Nina Gerassi-Navarro
8. Principles of a history of world literature / Pascale Casanova
Pt. II. Theories and practice of comparative literature
1. General, comparative, and national literature / René Wellek and Austin Warren
2. Notes towards a comparison between European and American romanticism / Tony Tanner
3. English romanticism, American romanticism : what's the difference? / J. Hillis Miller
4. Cultural time in England and America / Robert Weisbuch
5. Nature and 'Walden' / Richard Gravil
6. On beginning to tell a "best-kept secret" / Margaret McFadden
7. Network analysis : a reappraisal / Jeremy Boissevain
Pt. III. Imperialism and the postcolonial
1. Prospero and Caliban / Peter Hulme
2. Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall
3. The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity / Paul Gilroy
4. American literary emergence as a postcolonial phenomenon / Lawrence Buell
5. European pedigrees/African contagions : nationality, narrative, and community in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed / James Snead
6. Deep time : American literature and world history / Wai Chee Dimock
1. The task of the translator / Walter Benjamin
2. On linguistic aspects of translation / Roman Jakobson
3. The hermeneutic motion / George Steiner
4. The tropics of translation / Douglas Robinson
5. Gender and the metaphorics of translation / Lori Chamberlain
6. Jack Spicer's 'After Lorca' : translation as decomposition / Daniel Katz
7. The French Caribbeanization of Phillis Wheatley : a poetics of anticolonialism / Anna Brickhouse
1. Eloquence and translation / Eric Cheyfitz
2. Introduction : rhizome / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
3. Traveling genres / Margaret Cohen
4. Introduction : history, memory, and performance / Joseph Roach
5. Romance and rational orthodoxy / Michael Davitt Bell
6. The failure of genre criticism / Nicolaus Mills
7. Empire and occasional conformity : David Fordyce's 'Complete British letter-writer' / Eve Tavor Bannet
8. The Americanization of Clarissa / Leonard Tennenhouse
1. Reflections on exile / Edward Said
2. Ethno-graphy : speech, or the space of the other : Jean de Léry / Michel de Certeau
3. Introduction to 'Sea changes' / Stephen Fender
4. The rewards of travel / William Stowe
5. Introduction to 'Imperial eyes,' and Humboldt as transculturator / Mary Louise Pratt
6. Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.