Glossary

This glossary offers a structured entry point into the key concepts that shape transatlantic literature and culture of the long nineteenth century. Instead of presenting the terms as an isolated list, the project begins with a conceptual network that visualises how ideas intersect, branch, and evolve across the transatlantic intellectual landscape.

The network reveals the dynamic relations among concepts: how revolution connects with reform and war; how labour and class underpin debates about modernity; or how visuality, focalisation, and panopticism open questions of surveillance, perception, and social power. By mapping these connections, the visualisation provides an immediate sense of how clusters of meaning circulate through literary, cultural, and historical contexts.

Each node in the network links to an individual glossary entry, where the concept is defined, contextualised, and illustrated through textual examples and digital analyses. In this way, the glossary functions not only as a reference tool, but as an interactive research environment that encourages exploration, comparison, and deeper understanding of the conceptual architecture of transatlantic modernity.