Urban Identity and the Atlantic World [Hardcover]

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.PART I: SPATIAL PROJECTIONS OF POWER 1. Atlantic Urban Transfers in Early Modernity: Mazag?o from Africa to the Americas; Jorge Correia 2. From Colonial Subjectivity to 'Enlightened' Selfhood: The Spatial Rhetoric of the Plaza de Armas of Havana, Cuba, 1771-1828; Paul Niell 3. Urban Driftwood: Mobile Catholic Markers and the Extension of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Public Sphere; Karin V?lez PART II: THE SITE OF REFORM 4. The Plymouth Rock of Old England?: James Cropper, Atlantic Anti-Slavery, and Liverpool's Civic Identity; Keith Mason 5. Romancing Post-Napoleonic Britain: The Metrical Tale and The Fabulation of Sim?n Bol?var; Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge 6. Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia: African Lawyers in Colonial Urban Lagos; Bonny Ibhawoh Part III: IDENTITY AND IMAGINATIVE HISTORY 7. Leonora Sansay's Anatopic Imagination; Michael Drexler 8. Transatlantic Loops and Urban Anonymity in Mary Shelley's Lodore; Cynthia S. Williams 9.The Spanish Archive and the Remapping of U.S. History in Washington Irving's Columbus; Lindsay DiCuirci Section IV: Cultures of Performance 10. Meere Strangers: Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-1630; Coll Thrush 11. Theater in the Combat Zone: Military Theatricals at Philadelphia, 1778; David Worrall

Fay and von Morz?'s perspective-changing collection explains how larger sociospatial forces shape cities and their inhabitants. This edition presents a new direction for urban, Atlantic, and cultural studies to reveal an exciting interdisciplinary panorama. - Stephen Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK