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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour /

Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams examines tours by British and American authors, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beeche...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Adams, Amanda, 1977-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
Collection:Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: In person: the nineteenth-century transatlantic lecture tour
  • Seen and not heard: the transatlantic tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Performing ownership: Dickens, Twain, and copyright on the transatlantic stage
  • Apostles in the flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the reproduction of personality in America
  • The voice of the master: Henry James and the paradox of performance
  • Conclusion: Performing authorship beyond the nineteenth century.