Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority : : Literature, Print, Performance /

Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority : : Literature, Print, Performance / / Tim Sommer.

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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Sommer, Tim,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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