Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority : Literature, Print, Performance /
Analyses Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson against the background of Anglo-American print culture and oral performanceDevelops a new analytical framework for the study of nineteenth-century transatlantic writing that combines literary studies, book history and cultural sociologyReframes canonic...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Culture and the Uses of Authority
- Part I: Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Identities
- 1 Race and Nationhood in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Field
- 2 Usable Pasts: Anglo-American Literature and the Authority of Tradition
- Part II: Authority and Authorisation in the Anglo-American Print Market
- 3 'Transatlantic Bibliopoly': Carlyle's Early American Print Career
- 4 'A Yankee Pocket Edition of Carlyle'? Emerson on the British Market
- Part III: Performing Nationhood on the Transatlantic Lecture Circuit
- 5 Touring Anglo-America: Emerson as Transatlantic Lecturer
- 6 (De-)Authorising Eloquence: Carlyle and Transatlantic Public Speech
- Epilogue: From Sectional Conflict to Posthumous Consecration
- Bibliography
- Index