Table Of ContentThe New Urban Atlantic
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JuliaStraub
The Rise of New
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Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
JuliaStraub
UniversityofBern
Bern,Switzerland
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
A book so profoundly concerned with memory would be incomplete
withoutanexpressionofgratitudetoallthoseindividualsandinstitutions
whosesupport of myworkhas been sovaluable overthe years.
I would like to thank my colleagues at the English Department of the
UniversityofBern,manyofwhomhaveprovidedmewiththeirguidance,
understanding,andpracticalhelp.TheNorthAmericanliteratureresearch
colloquium provided a valuable framework to test ideas, and I owe many
thankstoAnnieCottier,NoraEscherle,StephanieHoppeler,LukasEtter,
Ryan Kopaitich, and Viola Marchi, among others, for their feedback and
constructivecriticism.PatriciaBieder,SimonReber,EttoreTrento,Rahel
Braunschweig, and Sofie Beluhli were wonderful colleagues and student
assistants;MonikaIseliFelderandHilarySharpsolidrocks,visitstowhose
office often put a smile on my face; Irmtraud Huber and Ursula Kluwick
reliable colleagues and empathetic friends. Virginia Richter, Barbara
Korte, Christine Göttler, and Thomas Claviez read early versions of this
book and I thank them, the series editor, Elizabeth Fay, the anonymous
readers at Palgrave as well as my editors at Palgrave, Ryan Jenkins, Allie
Bochicchio, and Emily Janakiram, for their useful advice. Nia Stephens-
Metcalfe and Joe Fruscione helped me polish the final manuscript. Much
of its finesse is owed to their discerning eyes. I am most indebted to
Gabriele Rippl for her unflagging support of my projects and ideas and
her belief in my person over by what are now almost two decades of
co-operation.Herintellectualfervorandprofessionalismareatrueinspira-
tion.ThanksarealsoduetoMarkusHaas,whoseworkbehindthescenes
enabled,among otherthings,fruitful discussionsover deliciousdinners.
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vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for fund-
ing a visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford,
in 2010, and Lincoln College, University of Oxford, for hosting me as
a visiting fellow in 2011. Thanks also go to the Swiss Academy of
Humanities and Social Sciences and the “Forschungsstiftung UniBe” for
financingresearchandconferencetripsthatmadeimportantworkforthis
book possible. Conversations with Jared Gardner, Oliver Scheiding,
Stefanie Lethbridge, and Tim Lanzendörfer provided helpful input. Erik
Redling, Annika Bautz, Betiel Wasihun, Philipp Schweighauser, Ridvan
Askin, Ina Habermann, and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet gave me much
appreciated professionalsupport overthe years.
I would like to thank Jasmin Fallahi, Verena Nungesser, Michelle
Shepherd, Astrid Pfeiffer, Jolyon Pawlyn, and Jarmila Mazel for being
loyal friends and helping me put things into perspective. Thanks to
Kaj-Gunnar Sievert, who excels at boosting my morale so effortlessly
with his sheer patience and kindness, and to my mother Astrid Straub,
my sister Simone, my brother-in-law Johannes as well as my brother
Stephanandmysister-in-lawSimonewiththeiramazingfamilyforalways
being thereforme.
Parts of Chapter 3 have been previously published in an article titled
“Virtual Museums in Early America:Transatlantic Magazine Culture and
Cultural Memory” included in Annika Bautz and Kathryn Gray, eds.
Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1750–1850. London:
Routledge/Taylor&Francis, 2017. 149–70. They are reprinted with
permission.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction:BuildinganAmerican Memory
ofLiterature, 1750–1850 1
2 RememberingLiterature inEarly America:
Transatlanticism,CulturalMemory,and ItsMedia 13
3 VirtualMuseums:The Literary Magazine
andTransatlantic PeriodicalCulture 29
4 OfGems, Beauties,andRelics:Anthologies
inEarly America 67
5 EarlyFormsof Literary Historiography inAmerica:
Literary HistoriesasNarrativeAnthologies 103
6 Conclusion 153
Bibliography 157
Index 189
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