Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.

Introduction: Division, Renewal, and Repetition – Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (Michael Meranze And Saree Makdisi) 1. Transoceanic Spectacles of Dissection: London’s Anatomical Art in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania (Ari Sarafianos) 2. Disavowed and Reprobated: Anti-Quakerism in an Age of Revolution (Sarah Crabtree) 3. British Atlantic Catholicism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction (Catherine O’Donnell) 4. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Two Lovers: Convergence and Divergence in Trans-Atlantic Literary Radicalism (Andrew Cayton) 5. Susanna Rowson’s Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Translation: A Tale of Three Cities (Jenna Gibbs) 6. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s Romantic Retreat: Magic, Mesmerism, and Prophecy, 1776–1802 (Iain McCalman) 7. From Radical Enthusiasm to Liberal Melancholia: Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Modern Chivalry, Part 1 and 2 (Anthony Galluzzo) 8. Penal Reform and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century England: “A Prison Must Be a Prison” (Randall McGowen) 9. When the Atlantic Went Global: A Note on Slavery and Rebellion in Fletcher Christian’s Pitcairn (Edward G. Gray)

“Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution is a stirring and instructive collection, full of local histories that complicate general claims of revolutionary rupture. It makes a decisive contribution to transatlantic studies by focusing on the cultural and political effects of colonial revolution in the eighteenth century and beyond.”

"Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution is a stirring and instructive collection, full of local histories that complicate general claims of revolutionary rupture. It makes a decisive contribution to transatlantic studies by focusing on the cultural and political effects of colonial revolution in the eighteenth century and beyond." -- Paul Youngquist, Department of English, University of Colorado Boulder "Meranze and Makdisi's collection pulls together scholars from history, history of art, and literature whose essays demand the reader recognize the fluid boundaries of the revolutionary imagination from c.1750-1820. This is a thought-provoking, impressive collection of essays." -- Ella Dzelzainis, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University