Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World

1. Introduction
Leonard Morzé

Part I. Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic

2. Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil
Ananya Chakravarti

3. Courtly Ceremonies and a Cultural Urban Geography of Power in the Habsburg Spanish Empire
Alejandra B. Osorio

4. Pirates, Politicians, and Urban Intellectuals: Toward a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier
R. Malcolm Smuts

Part II. Figures of the Circulating Self

5. “Blazing Effects”: The 1605 Gunpowder Treason and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy
Steven Bellomy

6. Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography

Betsy Klimasmith

7. Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen’s Novels
Elizabeth Fay

Part III. Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism

8. Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American City Writing from Postrevolutionary Literature to Modernism
Stefan L. Brandt

9. English-Canadian Actresses and the Multiple Networks of the Urban Atlantic, 1890s–1920s
Cecilia Morgan

10. A Museum is Born: Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936
Mark Hinchman

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, North American Literature, US History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History