‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain

Abstract

Katie McGettigan in ‘“Across the waters of this disputed ocean”: The Material Production of American Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ argues that attending to the fashioning of American texts by British publishers enables us to rethink the emergence of American Literature as a material as well as an imaginative phenomenon, and one which was fashioned outside of, as much as within, America itself. This, in turn, produces new insights into the development of American national literary identity and transatlantic print culture, revealing a neglected history of transatlantic material exchange in the production of nineteenth-century American literature.