"Wandering Yankees": The transatlantic review or How the Americans Came to Europe.

This chapter explores Frank MacShane's definition of the 'translatlantic review' as 'essentially the bringer of America to Europe'. Notwithstanding Ford's original intentions (to establish an 'International Republic of Letters'), the 'transatlantic review' was not a new English Review bringing various traditions together and talent scouting new would-be writers; similarly, it was not an outstanding literary review mirroring what was blooming in Paris at the time; it was the one which bore witness to the dawning Americanisation of the twentieth century. Following Pound's suggestion, Ford took on Hemingway as his assistant editor and Hemingway performed that role by fully embracing the spirit of the 'wondering Yankee' whose praise is sung by Lt. Pinkerton in Puccini's famous opera, Madama Butterfly. The American shock waves overwhelemed Ford's editorial strategy to te extent that the 'tr' became the torchbearer of the new American literary and artistic Risorgimento.