Transatlantic Literary Studies Reading List
Updated 9 February 2009
This section contains a growing list of works on transatlantic topics. If you've read something recently that you think your colleagues might find useful or interesting, please submit this information to starproject@ed.ac.uk and it will be posted here. Brief reviews of the works cited are welcome.
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Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West and the Peopling of British North America. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1986.
Bannet, Eve Tavor. 'The Theater of Politeness in Charlotte Lennox's British-American Novels.' Novel 33 (Fall 1999): 73-92.
Brewster, Donna. The House that Sugar Built. Privately printed: G.G. Book Publishers Ltd. 17 North Main St. Wigtown DGB 9HL, 1999. Not an academic study, but illustrates connections between S.W. Scotland and Barbados in the 19c via a case-history of one family.
Cain, Robert, 'Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier 1751-57'. In A. MacKillop & S. Murdoch (eds), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Castillo, Susan and Ivy Schweitzer, eds. The Literatures of Colonial America. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Clive, John and Bernard Bailyn. 'England's Cultural Provinces: Scotland and America.' William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 11 (April 1954): 200-13.
Court, Franklin E. The Scottish Connection: The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America. Syracuse University Press, 2001.
Dobson, David. Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. 7 vols. Baltimore Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984-93. A valuable research tool: in spite of its title, it includes settlers in the British West Indies.
Dobson, David. Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Dunkerley, James. Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850. London: Verso, 2000.
Fender, Stephen. Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Goveia, Elsa V. Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, CT 1965.
Graham, Eric J. A Maritime History of Scotland 1650-1790. Tuckwell Press, 2002. (400 pp, illlustrated)
Hall, Catherine. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867. Cambridge: Polity, 2002.
Halliwell, Martin. Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005.
Hamilton, Douglas. 'Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771.' In A. MacKillop & S. Murdoch (eds), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Hamilton, Douglas. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005.
Hamilton, Douglas. 'Scottish Trading in the Caribbean'. In Ned C. Landsman (ed.), Nation and Province in the first British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
Hancock, David. Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hancock, David. 'Scots and the Slave Trade'. In Ned C. Landsman (ed.), Nation and Province in the first British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
Hanson, Tim, 'Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the 18th Century North Atlantic World'. In A. MacKillop & S. Murdoch (eds), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Harper, Marjory and Michael E. Vance, eds. Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia, c.1700-1990. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1999.
Hayes, Kevin J. A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Hook, Andrew. From Goosecreek to Gandercleugh: Studies in Scottish-American Literary and Cultural History. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999.
Hook, Andrew. Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations 1750-1835. Glasgow and London: Blackie, 1975.
Jacob, Margaret and James Jacob, eds. The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Karras, Alan L. Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Kaufman, Will, and Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, eds. Transatlantic Studies. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.
Landsman, Ned C. (ed.). Nation and Province in the first British Empire: Scotland and the Americas. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001.
Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. London: Verso 2000.
MacCann, William. Two Thousand Miles' Ride Through the Argentine Provinces, 2 vols. London: Longmann, 1853.
MacDougall, John. Narrative of a Voyage to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Through the Straits of Magellan, in H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, in 1826 and 1827. London: Renshaw and Rush, 1833.
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl, and Will Kaufman, eds. New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
Manning, Susan. Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001.
Mulvey, Christopher. Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in 19th Century Anglo-American Travel Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Murdoch, Alex. 'James Glen and the Indians'. In A. MacKillop & S. Murdoch (eds), Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Norton, Mary Beth. The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789. London: Constable, 1974.
Plá, Josefina. Los británicos en el Paraguay 1850-1870. Asunción, Paraguay: Arte Nuevo, 1984.
Prieto, Adolfo. Los viajeros ingleses y la emergencia de la literatura argentina 1820-1850. Buenos Aires: Tierra Firme, 2003 2nd edn; 1st publ. 1996. Although this is on English travelers, a lot of the information is invaluable to those researching Scottish travelers and settlers.
Ray, Celeste. Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. An anthropological study of the Scottish heritage movement in North Carolina.
Rice, Alan J. and Martin Crawford (eds), Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Rice, Alan. Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic. London/New York: Continuum Press, 2003.
Robertson, John and William. Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Río de la Plata, 3 vols. London: John Murray, 1843.
Sheridan, Richard B. 'The Role of the Scots in the Economy and Society of the West Indies', Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, vol. 292 (1977), 94-106.
Shields, David S. Civil Tongues and Polite letters in British America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Steele, Ian K. The English Atlantic 1675-1740. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Stewart, Iain A. D., ed. From Caledonia to the Pampas: Two Accounts by Early Scottish Emigrants to the Argentine. ('The voyage of the Symmetry' by William Grierson and 'Faith hard tried' by Jane Robson.) East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 2000.
Taylor, Helen. Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture Through a Transatlantic Lens. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Turner, Mary. Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. (Revised version forms chapter 9 of UNESCO History of the Caribbean, vol. 3, ed. Franklin Knight).
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