American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863

The first is historical and relates to OConnors understanding that British apprehension of the American Civil War cannot be understood through reference to 1861-65 alone, because sectional discord in the United States and British perception of it evolved over the course of decades. The influence of these abolitionists upon northern textile workers became vivid in the political behavior the latter would exhibit during the Civil War and the federal blockade on Southern cotton. Christopher Hanlon Arizona State University doi: 10.2979/victorianstudies.62.1.07 Christopher Hanlon (christopher.hanlon@asu.edu) is Professor of U. S. Literature at Arizona State University and author of America's England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (2013) and Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style (2018).