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Traveling Traditions : Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks /

This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shape and re-shape aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. The study explores the roles of salient traveling concepts, such as realism, tran...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Redling, Erik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
Colección:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 53.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited
  • 1. Transatlantic Literary Networks: E.A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago
  • 2. American Realism in Its Transatlantic Context
  • 3. Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century America and Great Britain
  • Part II: Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics
  • 4. The (Traveling) Reform Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo- America
  • 5. Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations and the Struggle between 'High' and 'Low' Cultures in Nineteenth-Century America
  • 6. The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority and Reception Histories
  • 7. The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective
  • Part III: Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender
  • 8. Frederick Douglass, Photography, and Imagination
  • 9. Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Traveling Concepts
  • 10. Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence
  • 11. Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women's (Post- ) Bellum Identity Construction
  • Part IV: The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks
  • 12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque
  • 13. On Transatlantic Simultaneity and Misunderstanding Telegraphy
  • 14. (Un)Settling North America: The Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • 15. Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855
  • Contributors
  • Index.