Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Terraqueous America
Part I: Lydia Maria Child’s Oceanic Pedagogies
Chapter One: Pacific Voices in the Juvenile Miscellany
Chapter Two: Mary Howard’s Mark
Part II: Continental Territories, Oceanic Plots, and Interior Selves
Chapter Three: “Doubting, dreading, fretful guest” Elizabeth Craw’s Diary and Transoceanic Anxiety
Chapter Four: “Outre- mer adventures” Caroline Kirkland’s Frontier and the Maritime World
Part III: Coastal Gothic and Archipelagic Relations
Chapter Five: “Inwreathed in sand and shells” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Coastal Gothic
Chapter Six: Elizabeth Stoddard and Harriet Prescott Spofford Amphibious Style and Archipelagic Forms
Coda
Notes
Index
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