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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| Dokumenttyp: | Book/Monograph Hochschulschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
[2022]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture I19CALC
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| DOI: | 10.1515/9781474491969 |
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| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9781474491969 Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474491969 Verlag, Cover: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474491969/original 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Tim Sommer |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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