Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Capitalism, Nationalism, and the Romantic Weltanschauung -- I. The City -- 1. "The pit of modern art": Practice and Ambition in the London Art World -- 2. The Urban Ecology of Art in Antebellum New York -- 3. Urban Convalescence in Lamb, Poe, and Baudelaire -- II. History -- 4. Sublime and Fall: Benjamin West and the Politics of the Sublime in Early Nineteenth-Century Marylebone -- 5. Benjamin West's Royal Chapel at Windsor: Who's in Charge, the Patron or the Painter? -- 6. The Politics of Style: Allston's and Martin's Belshazzars Compared -- 7. James Fenimore Cooper and American Artists in Europe: Art, Religion, Politics -- III. Landscape -- 8. John Martin, Thomas Cole, and Deep Time -- 9. "Gorgeous, but altogether false": Turner, Cole, and Transatlantic Ideas of Decline -- 10. Thomas Cole and Transatlantic Romanticism -- IV. Race -- 11. Picturing the Murder of Jane McCrea: A Critical Moment in Transatlantic Romanticism -- 12. The Romantic Indian Commodified: Text and Image in George Catlin's Letters and Notes (1841) -- 13. Romantic Racialism and the Antislavery Novels of Stowe, Hildreth, and Melville -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates -- About the Authors -- Back Cover.