Includes bibliographical references.

Mistaken Identities: False Perceptions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies / Michael Dorris -- Christopher Columbus, Limina Americana, and Global Literary Culture / William Boelhower -- Columbiads in Eighteenth-Century European and American Literature / Herbert Knust -- Columbus in Grand Opera and Epic Musical Theater: Notes on the Musical Discovery of America / Astrid Schmitt-v. Muhlenfels -- The Celebration of Columbus in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Washington Irving's Life of Columbus / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- The Conquistador as Improviser and the Magic of Colonial Discourse: Cortes and Hariot / Gesa Mackenthun -- The Meaning of Wilderness in Early English Accounts of America / Joyce Chaplin -- The Indian, This Unknown Man: English Images of the Native Americans in Early Colonial Literature / Clara Bartocci -- Uneasy Affinities: Strategies and Notions Behind the Old World/New World Analogies in Some Early English Reports from America / Brigitte Fleischmann -- Old and New Worlds: Discovery, Invention, and Innovation in the Contact of Cultures / Christian F. Feest -- Scotland and the Invention of the USA / Andrew Hook -- Voices from the Spanish Enlightenment on the Emergence of The United States of America / Hans R. Guggisberg -- Caribbean Culture in the United States / Alfred Hunt -- Gendered Interventions: Rediscovering the American Past / Alice Kessler-Harris -- 'Encounters' between the Canadian and American Labor Movements, from Integration to Separation: Or, Samuel Gomper's Mistake / Catherine Collomp -- Feminism, Utopia, and the Politics of Subjectivity / Jean Pfaelzer -- Hostage to Innocence: The Captivity Melodrama from Colonial Massachusetts to Contemporary Lebanon / Thomas Grant -- The Presentation of Foreigners in the Land of Immigrants: Paradox and Stereotype at the Chicago World Exposition / Stephen F. Mills -- Encounter: An Intellectual Concept of Atlanticism in the 1950's / Tity de Vries -- Telling the American Story to Europe: Alistair Cooke and Trans-Atlantic Images / Ronald A. Wells -- Eva Hoffman's Immigrant Autobiography: A Quiet Affirmation / Jerzy Durczak -- The American Question / Andrew Delbanco -- The Pastoral of the Past and Pastorals of the Future: A Representative Case of the Transatlantic 'Deviating Responses' / Armin Paul Frank -- The Source of Eugene O'Neill's The Fountain: The Influence of Susan Gaspell and George Cram Cook / Barbara Ozieblo -- America Discovered in Reverse: The Feminine in O'Neill's Desire under the Elms and Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire / Daniele Pitavy-Souques -- The Secret of the Blue Mesa: Willa Cather, The Professor's House and the Lost America / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Constructing a Columbus Worth Cursing / Jules Chametzky -- Nabokov's Discovery of America: From Russia to Lolita / Ellen Pifer.