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BEER1 15/08/2002 2:54 pm Page 1 THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS by leading scholars AS n of American literature and culture has emerged gp out of recent debates on the historical, lo-e Ac geographical, symbolic and cultural connections m i between Britain and America, as well as new work era icl in the area of Transatlantic Studies. a nr ae The contributors have produced diverse and n tl innovative interventions in the field of British aga ot American literary relations, bringing together ni GertrudeStein and AlfredNorthWhitehead, ismo Special n CharlottePerkinsGilman and SarahGrand, s as HenryJames and GeorgeEliot, ElizabethStoddard ndh and CharlotteBrontë, MarkTwain and ai relationships ffip WalterScott, EdithWharton and VirginiaWoolf as n well as DjunaBarnes and EvelynWaugh. Subjects ities s discussed include Scottish American literary 18 Anglo-American relations, the Atlanticist dimension of spiritualism, 5 4 American interventions in the debate about – 1 antagonisms 9 Highland clearances, American slavery and British 3 6 pastoralism. and affinities B E E R 1854–1936 Janet Beer is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Humanities and an d Social Science at Manchester Metropolitan University. B E Bridget Bennett is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at N the University of Leeds. N E edited by T T JANET BEER and BRIDGET BENNETT e d s Special relationships Special relationships ffi Anglo-American a nities and antagonisms 1854–1936 edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Copyright © Manchester University Press 2002 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors,and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published byManchester University Press Oxford Road,Manchester M13 9NR,UK andRoom 400,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY 10010,USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,175 Fifth Avenue,New York, NY 10010,USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press,University ofBritish Columbia,2029 West Mall, Vancouver,BC,Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 0 7190 5817 1 hardback ISBN 0 7190 5818 X paperback First published 2002 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset 10/12pt Minion by Servis Filmsetting Ltd,Manchester Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd,Glasgow Contents Notes on contributors pagevii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott’s shoulders? 8 Susan Manning 2 Stowe’s sunny memories ofHighland slavery 28 Judie Newman 3 Gothic legacies:Jane Eyrein Elizabeth Stoddard’s New England 42 Anne-Marie Ford 4 Our Nig:fetters ofan American farmgirl 65 R.J.Ellis 5 Crossing over:spiritualism and the Atlantic divide 89 Bridget Bennett 6 Poet ofcomrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship 110 Carolyn Masel 7 Nation making and fiction making:Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover,and Walter Scott,Waverley 139 Alison Easton 8 Beyond the Americana:Henry James reads George Eliot 160 Lindsey Traub vi Contents 9 ‘IfI Were a Man’:Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Sarah Grand and the sexual education ofgirls 178 Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann 10 ‘Embattled tendencies’:Wharton,Woolfand the nature of Modernism 202 Katherine Joslin 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies:T.S.Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh’s A Handful ofDust and Barnes’s Nightwood 224 Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 12 Encounters with genius:Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead 242 Kate Fullbrook Index 259 Notes on contributors Janet Beer is Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Manchester Metropolitan University.Her research interests are late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century American women writers and contemporary Canadianfiction.She is the author ofEdith Wharton: Traveller in the Land of Letters (1990), Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction(1997) and Edith Wharton(2002) as well as a wide range ofreviews and essays. Bridget Bennettis Senior Lecturer in the School ofEnglish,University of Leeds.Her books include an edited book Ripples of Dissent(1996),The Damnation of Harold Frederic (1997) and a jointly edited book (with Jeremy Treglown) Grub Street to the Ivory Tower(1998).She is currently working on a book on nineteenth-century American spiritualism. Alison Eastonis Senior Lecturer in English and a former Director ofthe Institute for Women’s Studies at Lancaster University.She is author ofThe Making of the Hawthorne Subject, and essays on nineteenth-century American women writers and class relations.She has edited the Penguin Sarah Orne Jewett,The Country ofthe Pointed Firs and Other Stories,and the Macmillan New Casebook,Angela Carter,and is co-editor ofWomen, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women’s Studies.She also pub- lished work on gender and nation (in relation to Scotland), and on African-American and Caribbean women writers.She is now engaged on a book on Jewett and social class. Richard J. Ellis is Professor of English and American Studies at the Nottingham Trent University.He currently edits Comparative American Studies(Sage). His most recent book is a study of the novels of Jack viii Notes on contributors Kerouac,Liar! Liar!: Jack Kerouac – Novelist(1999).In 1998 he edited the first modern edition ofHarriet Wilson’s Our Nig.He has published widely on African-American and contemporary American fiction and on little magazines as a cultural field. Anne-Marie Fordhas just completed a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University on the work of Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard.In 1998 she was winner of the Marcus Cunliffe travel bursary, awarded by the British Association for American Studies. She is a contributing editor to Key Texts: Documents in the History ofAmerican Feminism 1848–1920,to be published by Routledge. Kate Fullbrookis Professor ofLiterary Studies and Associate Dean in the Faculty ofHumanities at the University ofthe West ofEngland.She is the author ofKatherine Mansfield(1986),Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction (1990), and, with Edward Fullbrook,Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend (1993) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (1998). In addition, she has published many articles and reviews.Her major interests are in twentieth-century fiction,American literature,and literature and ethics. Ann Heilmann is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea,where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and women’s writing.She is the author of New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First- Wave Feminism (2000) and the general editor of Routledge’s History of Feminism series. She has edited two anthology sets, The Late-Victorian Marriage Question (1998) and (with Stephanie Forward) Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand (2000) and a special issue on the New Woman (for Nineteenth-Century Feminisms).A collection of essays on Feminist Forerunners: Womanism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century (Pandora) is forthcoming,and she is now working on a special suffrage issue (for Women’s History Review) and a book on New Woman Strategies for Manchester University Press. AvrilHornerisProfessorofEnglishat Kingston University andformerly Directorof theEuropeanStudiesResearchInstituteattheUniversityof Salford. Her research interests and publications focus on twentieth- centuryliteratureand,inparticular,onmodernpoetry,women’swriting andtheGothic.SheistheeditorofEuropeanGothic:ASpiritedExchange, Notes on contributors ix 1760–1960(2002).Sheistheco-author,withSueZlosnik,ofLandscapes of Desire: Metaphors in ModernWomen’s Fiction (1990) and Daphne du Maurier:Writing,IdentityandtheGothicImagination(1998).Theyhave alsopublishedanumberofarticlesandbookchaptersonGothicwriting. She is currently working, with Sue Zlosnik, on Gothic and the Comic Turn,tobepublishedbyPalgrave. Katherine Joslinis the author ofEdith Whartonin Macmillan’s Women Writers Series and co editor ofWretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe. Her scholarly work includes essays on Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, George Sand and Emile Zola. Joslin is a Professor of English at Western Michigan University, where she has received the Alumni Teaching Excellence Award and is the director ofan interdisciplinary programme in American Studies. Over the past three years,she has directed a Fulbright Summer Institute in the Study ofthe United States for International Educators.Joslin is currently completing a literary biography ofJane Addams that considers her social work in the context ofher several books on urban culture and global peace. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University ofEdinburgh.Her primary research interests lie in the field of Scottish–American literary relations,the subject ofher book The Puritan- Provincial Vision (1990). A second transatlantic study, Fragments of Union,was published by Palgrave in 2001.She has edited the works of Henry Mackenzie (including a new edition ofJulia de Roubignépublished by Tuckwell Press in 1999),Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward,Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Hector St John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble FaunOUP,2002).She has also published arti- cles on a variety of Scottish and American Enlightenment texts and topics. Carolyn Maselstudied at the University ofMelbourne,the University of Toronto and the University of Essex, before becoming a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. Her special field is modern poetry,particularly the poetry of Wallace Stevens,but she also writes on Canadian and Australian literatures. Her work focuses on poetics,intertextuality,influence,gender and issues in postcolonialism. She has been instrumental in preparing the archives of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship at the John Rylands Library ofManchester and the

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