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

Traveling Traditions : : Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks / / ed. by Erik Redling.

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This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shaped and re-shaped aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. Special attention is paid to a group of salient cultural concepts, such as arti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arac, Jonathan,
Butler, Leslie,
Fluck, Winfried,
Hanlon, Christopher,
Nell, Werner,
Nitz, Julia,
Redling, Ellen,
Schäfer, Stefanie,
Sielke, Sabine,
Stauffer, John,
Stein, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Redling, Erik,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 53
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 273 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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