Glossary of Transatlantic Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century is a research project that investigates how transatlantic cultures shaped the conceptual foundations of modernity. Drawing on literary, cultural, and historical analysis, the project examines how nineteenth-century British and American texts articulated key concepts such as gender, genre, class, race, sea, continent, borderland, territoriality, revolution, reform, war, visuality, focalisation, and panopticism.

The long nineteenth century was a period marked by industrialisation, imperial expansion, mobility, political conflict, and new forms of print culture. Literature played a crucial role in mediating these transformations and in producing the conceptual vocabulary through which modern societies came to understand themselves. By tracing how these concepts were developed, contested, and circulated across the Atlantic, the project offers new insights into the cultural logic of modernity.

The project has six overarching aims:

1. To analyse key conceptual clusters that structure transatlantic literary and cultural modernity.

2. To examine core categories of gender, genre, class, and race as they emerged in nineteenth-century Atlantic writing.

3. To explore spatial concepts such as sea, continent, borderland, and territoriality.

4. To study political concepts including revolution, reform, and war.

5. To investigate epistemic concepts such as visuality, focalisation, and panopticism.

6. To strengthen research capacity and international collaboration through team workshops, expert consultations, and academic colloquia.

By mapping these concepts across a wide range of literary texts, the project constructs a conceptual glossary that supports both research and teaching.

The project combines:

• close reading of literary texts

• distant reading using digital tools (Voyant Tools)

• data visualisation (Flourish)

• interdisciplinary approaches from American Studies, English Studies, cultural theory, and history of ideas

This methodological framework allows the team to examine both micro-textual detail and macro-conceptual patterns, offering a holistic view of transatlantic intellectual history.

The project will produce:

• an open-access digital glossary of key concepts

• peer-reviewed publications and conference papers

• a digital archive of visualisations

• integration of results into teaching and mentorship

• increased visibility of Croatian scholarship in international humanities research

Through these outcomes, the project contributes to open science, digital transition, and the long-term development of literary and cultural studies.