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Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries´ shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself.

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1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor´s Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper´s The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed

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´...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.´ Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

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Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

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