Part I. Aesthetics of Disorder: 1. The Paraguayan War imagined Candela Marini; 2. Networks of New World Authority Ronald Briggs; 3. Artisans and Affective Labor Brendan Lanctot; 4. Reading (In) the Streets William Acree; 5. Publicity and Print Culture José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra; 6. Literature and Political Corruption Ariel de la Fuente; 7. Emotions and Politics in the Era of Caudillos Ricardo Salvatore; Part II. Affective Communities: 8. Imagining Popular Sovereignty Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado; 9. The Arithmetic of Sentiment Shelley Garrigan; 10. Costumbrismo as Political Ethnography Lina del Castillo; 11. The Disruptive Andean Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela; 12. The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing Corina Zeltsman; 13. Hygiene, Good Manners and the Public Body Juan Carlos González Espitia; 14. Intimacy, Identity and the Nation Lee Skinner; Part III. Intersectional Subjectivities: 15. Shame, Enslavement, and Identity David Luis-Brown; 16. Narratives from Enslavement Lucía Stecher; 17. Masculinities and Racial Ambivalence Pilar Egüez Guevara and Michelle Patiño-Flores; 18. Childhood, Race and Gender Ana Peluffo; 19. Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brazil César Braga-Pinto; Part IV. Transoceanic Consciousness: 20. Women's Travel Writing Francesca Denegri; 21. Hydraulic Modernity Carlos Abreu Mendoza; 22. History and the Transatlantic Imagination Karen Racine; 23. Humboldt's Aesthetic Populations Stefan H. Uhlig; 24. Argentine Darwinists Leila Gómez.