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In writing this volume, I have adapted material from a variety of sources, including my own books on American literature in its transatlantic context: Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730–1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press); Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press); Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (Oxford University Press), as well as the broader treatment of this transnational theme in The Global Remapping of American Literature (Princeton University Press) and Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of American Literature (Oxford University Press). More specifically, I have drawn with permission on various essays of mine previously published in a range of journals and edited collections: “Dreiser’s Style,” in The Cambridge Companion to Dreiser, ed. Lenny Cassuto and Claire Eby (Cambridge University Press, 2004); “Douglass’s Black Atlantic: Britain, Europe, Egypt,” in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass, ed. Maurice Lee (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “Transatlantic Currents and the Invention of the American Novel,” in The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Benjamin Reiss, and Clare Eby (Cambridge University Press, 2011); “Globalization,” in A Companion to American Literary Studies, ed. Robert S. Levine and Caroline F. Levander (Blackwell, 2011); “Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle,” in Essays in Criticism, 61.3 (July 2011); “America and Britain during the Civil War,” in The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln, ed. Shirley Samuels (Cambridge University Press, 2012); “The Novel after the Great War,” in Oxford History of the Novel in English, VI: The American Novel 1870–1940, ed. Priscilla Wald and Michael E. Elliott (Oxford University Press, 2014); “Transatlantic Currents and Postcolonial Anxieties,” in Oxford History of the Novel in English, V: American Novels to 1870, ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland Person (Oxford University Press, 2014); “Globalization,” in American Literature of the 1990s, ed. Stephen Burn (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Some of the material on pedagogy was first addressed in “Transposing Pedagogic Boundaries: Global America in an Australian Context,” New Global Studies 9.3 (2015). I should also like to acknowledge the many stimulating discussions with colleagues on topics related to this subject at the Institute for World Literature convened by David Damrosch at Harvard in July 2017.