Overview
- Enriches the field of Atlantic studies by lending an interdisciplinary analysis through its comprehensive examination of history, literature, architecture, economics and geography
- Establishes dialogues between seemingly disparate components of Atlantic history, illuminating the nuanced and nonlinear history of its modernization
- Unites a diverse set of geographic perspectives through an international scope in content as well as in authorship
Part of the book series: The New Urban Atlantic (NUA)
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About this book
This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic history, examining a wealth of diverse topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Guy Fawkes and the conspiratorial rhetoric of slaves; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar; and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Franklin, and others. By interpreting Atlantic urban history through sustained attention to customs and representational forms, an international group of nine contributors demonstrate the power of culture in the making of Atlantic urban experience, even as they acknowledge the harsh realities of economic history.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic
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Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leonard von Morzé is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is the coeditor of Urban Identity and the Atlantic World. He has published extensively on colonial American literature and serves as an Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World
Book Subtitle: From the Early Modern to Modernism
Editors: Leonard von Morzé
Series Title: The New Urban Atlantic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52606-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54129-1Published: 01 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52606-9Published: 29 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Literature, North American Literature, US History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History