• Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies


• Chapter One: From English Empire to British Atlantic World


• Chapter Two: The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic


• Chapter Three: Scots and Scott in the Early Republic


• Chapter Four: Wales and the American West


• Chapter Five: The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism


• Conclusion: British Atlantic Worlds: Anglo-American, Colonial, and Archipelagic


• Bibliography

Juliet Shields is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820.

Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture