Urban Identity and the Atlantic World [electronic resource] /
Fay, Elizabeth A.editor.
Morzé, Leonard von.editor.
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.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Introduction : "The New Urban Atlantic"; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Spatial Projections of Power; 1 Atlantic Urban Transfers in Early Modernity: Mazag ã o from Africa to the Americas; 2 From Colonial Subjectivity to "Enlightened" Selfhood: The Spatial Rhetoric of the Plaza de Armas of Havana, Cuba, 1771-1828; 3 Urban Driftwood: Mobile Catholic Markers and the Extension of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Public Sphere; Part II The Site of Reform
4 "The Plymouth Rock of Old England"? James Cropper, Atlantic Antislavery, and Liverpool's Civic Identity5 Romancing Post-Napoleonic Britain: The Metrical Tale and the Fabulation of Sim ó n Bol í var; 6 Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia: African Lawyers in Colonial Urban Lagos; Part III Identity and Imaginative History; 7 Leonora Sansay's Anatopic Imagination; 8 Transatlantic Loops and Urban Alienation in Mary Shelley's Lodore; 9 The Spanish Archive and the Remapping of US History in Washington Irving's Columbus; Part IV Cultures of Performance
10 "Meere Strangers": Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-163011 Theater in the Combat Zone: Military Theatricals at Philadelphia, 1778; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index of City Names; General Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnology.
Civilization-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Cultural History.
Literary History.