This Broad-ranging Study Reconfigures Us Literature As A Product Of Hemispheric Relations. 'hemispheric Regionalism' Brings Together A Rich Archive Of Popular Culture, Fugitive Slave Narratives, Advertisements, Political Treatises, And Literature To Construct A New Literary History From A Hemispheric And Regional Perspective. Fugitive Slave Narratives And Atlantic Conspiracies -- The Sea Is History: Apocalypse And The New World Romance -- Popular Histories And Serious Fictions: Manifest Destiny And The Spanish Atlantic World -- Maturin M. Ballou, Periodical Romance, And The Editor Function -- Nation And Regionalism In Walter Scott And James Fenimore Cooper -- Coda: Hyperbolic Regionalism, Confederate Nationalism, And The New Southern Frontier. Gretchen J. Woertendyke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.