Transatlantic Traffic and (Mis)Translations

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225 Inde x Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. absence discourse: American humor as absence of culture, 7–9; clearness of the atmosphere and, 10; complexity of life and, 11–12; overview, x; U.S. national literature and, 66–67 Adams, Oscar Fay, 115 Addison, Joseph, 122 Adorno, Theodor, 14 agency. See voicing American Civil War, xxix, 3–4, 47, 59, 133–34, 144–47 Americanization, 2 Anglo-Americanism: Anglo-Saxon discourse and, xxvii–xxviii, 13–14; Catholicism as unifying other, xxxiii–xxxiv; empire as mutuality in, 1; Gough humor as unity device, 52–54; inheritance discourse and, 12–13, 15; manners as theme in, xxv; Old/New England image, xxii– xxiii; power-shift discourse, 2–3; rapprochement of mistranslation and, 15–16. See also transatlanticism Anglo-Saxon discourse, xxvii–xxviii, 13–14 Armitage, David, xxiii, xxvi Arnold, Matthew, 146–47 Auerbach, Jonathan, 199 Augst, Thomas, 47, 49 Axtell, James, 89, 102 Bailyn, Bernard, xxiv–xxv, xxvi Barthes, Roland, 201 Bartlett, John, 56 Bauer, Ralph, xxvi Baxter, Richard, 159 Bayly, Lewis, 93–94 Bellin, Joshua David, 99 Benjamin, Thomas, xxiv Berkeley, George, xxviii Bhabha, Homi, 57 Birchard, Robert, 197–98 Black Atlantic cultural formation, ix–x Blair, Sarah, 6 Blake, William, xv, xxxii, 137, 140–41, 149–50 Boggs, Colleen, 180 Bongie, Chris, x Bottomore, Stephen, 215 Boyle, Robert, 24, 37–39 Bradford, William, 92–93 Bradstreet, Anne: covenant theology in, 166–68; founding of Andover and, 160–61, 163, 165, 171n5; landscape discourse in, xxxiii–xxxiv, 157, 170; literary influences, 159; settlement boom of the 1650s and, 164, 171n7; transatlanticism in, 165–66. Works: “Contemplations” (see 226 Index Bradstreet, Anne (continued) main heading); “David’s Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan,” 167–68; “A Dialogue between Old England and New,” 166–67; “An Elegie upon Philip Sidney,” 163, 167; “In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth,” 163; “Old Age,” 162–63; The Tenth Muse, xxxiii, 165–68, 171n10; “In Thankfull Acknowledgment For the Letters I Received From My Husband Out of England,” 168 Bradstreet, Simon, 160–61, 171n10 Braid, James, 68 Bross, Kristina, 89–90, 96–98 Brown, Bill, 200 Brown, William Wells, 13 Bryant, William Cullen, 11 Bryce, James, xiv, 4–6, 10, 14 Buell, Lawrence, xiv, xx–xxi, xxvii, 49 Burch, Noël, 204 Burroughs, John, 10 Cable, George Washington, 177–78 Caldwell, Patricia, 98 Cameron, Ewan, 116 Carnegie, Andrew, 4 Carpenter, Frederic I., 114 Catholicism, xxxiii–xxxiv, 89, 96, 166–67 Cesarini, Patrick J., 98 Chaudhuri, Nirad, 11 Chedgzoy, Kate, 165–66 Child, Robert, 25 Christianity: Anglo-Atlantic Protestant Reformation and, xxxvi, 162–63; colonies as fulfillment of Restoration, 161–63; Congregationalist conversion practices, 92–95; covenant theology, 166–68, 172n11; cultural translation of Puritan prayer, 96–98; private meditation in Protestant treatises, 159; Protestant vs. Jesuit evangelism, 89 Christie, Ian, 220n64 cinema: “cinema of attractions” concept , xvi, 199–200, 202, 214–15; as Coney Island attraction, xxxv, 201–2; fight films, 209–10; influence on Jack London, xvi, xxxiv–xxxv, 197–99, 213–14; Méliès’s Sacre as spectacle, xxxv, 199–200, 201, 213–14, 217n20 class: class as spectacle in Jack London, xxxv, 202, 204–8, 210–13, 219n60; depiction of pugilism and, 209–10; Gough “Street Life in London” depictions , xxix, 53–56; role in Atlantic circulation, xxvi; segregation on U.S. passenger trains, xxi–xxii. See also economy Clayton, Owen, xvi, xxxiv–xxxv Cogley, Richard, 89 Cogliano, Francis, xxvi colonialism/imperialism: AngloSpanish hostility and, 168; bodily remnants of translation and, 177–78, 192–93; Christian conversion as colonial objective, 91–92; colonial economy in “Contemplations,” xv; empire as Anglo-American mutuality , 1–2; independence of nonwhite colonies, 13; postcolonialism, ix, x–xi; scenes of colonial encounter, 178–79; science as colonial-imperial interdependence, xiv; surrogation in, Index 227 194n4; theatrical staging of, xv–xvi, xxxiv, 180–81; transatlantic scientific discourse and, 34–40; translation as fundamental in, 180, 182–84, 186; U.S. imperialism, 5, 14; Whitman on westward expansion, 145 Congregationalism, xxx–xxxi, xxxiii– xxxiv, xxxvi, 92–94, 164. See also Puritanism “Contemplations” (Bradstreet, 1664–65): colonial economy in, xv; comparison to earlier poems, 161; covenant theology and, 167–68; geography of the countryside in, 157–58, 163–64; meditative technique in, 159–60, 169–70 conversion. See Praying Indians conversion narratives Conway, Moncure, 140–41 Cooper, James Fenimore, 9, 114 Cotton, John, 160, 163, 165, 170 Crane, Hart, 149 Crawford, Robert, 113 creole...