In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary
critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyse some of the most
significant watersheds and faultlines that occurred in the period
1775-1815, a crucial era in the history of Euro-Americans relations.
Tracing complex patterns of intellectual and cultural cross-pollination
between the Old and the New World, between pre-and post-Revolutionary
cultures, the essays aim to increase out awareness of the degree to
which the emergence of cultural nationalism in this period was
essentially a transatlantic process - a process that was itself part of
a larger circumatlantic cultural continuum.