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Acknowledgments . . vii
Introduction: Capitalism, Nationalism, and the Romantic Weltanschauung . . 1

I THE CITY
1 "The pit of modern art": Practice and Ambition in the London Art World . . 29
2 The Urban Ecology of Art in Antebellum New York . . 29
3 Urban Convalescence in Lamb, Poe, and Baudelaire . . 67

II HISTORY
4 Sublime and Fall: Benjamin West and the Politics of the Sublime in Early Nineteenth-Century Marylebone . . 83
5 Benjamin West's Royal Chapel at Windsor: Who's in Charge, the Patron or the Painter? . . 102
6 The Politics of Style: Allston's and Martin's Belshazzars Compared . . 122
7 James Fenimore Cooper and American Artists in Europe: Art, Religion, Politics . . 144

III LANDSCAPE
8 John Martin, Thomas Cole, and Deep Time . . 171
9 "Gorgeous, but altogether false": Turner, Cole, and Transatlantic Ideas of Decline . . 183
10 Thomas Cole and Transatlantic Romanticism . . 206

IV RACE
11 Picturing the Murder of Jane McCrea: A Critical Moment in Transatlantic Romanticism . . 229
12 The Romantic Indian Commodified: Text and Image in George Catlin's Letters and Notes (1841) . . 259
13 Romantic Racialism and the Antislavery Novels of Stowe, Hildreth, and Melville . . 285

Notes on Contributors . . 311
Index . . 315