Introduction Eve Tavor Bannet and Susan Manning; 1. Transatlantic books and literary culture Richard Sher; 2. Transatlantic Utopianism and the writing of America Wil Verhoeven; 3. Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies and providence tales Jim Egan; 4. Life writings Susan Imbarrato; 5. Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism Carla Mulford; 6. Theatre, drama, performance Jeffrey Richards; 7. Transatlantic American Indians Tim Fulford; 8. Literature of the ocean Janet Sorensen; 9. 'To gird this watery globe': Freneau, Barlow and American neoclassical poetry Paul Giles; 10. Ghostly and vernacular presences in the Black Atlantic Alan Rice; 11. Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative Lise Sorensen; 12. Domestic fiction and the reprint trade Eve Tavor Bannet; 13. Transatlantic Gothic Robert Miles; 14. Transatlantic Romanticisms Colleen Glenney Boggs; 15. Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge Joel Pace; 16. Transatlantic historical fiction Susan Manning; Further reading; Index.