Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815-1918)

ISBN-13: 9781032091914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Jasper Schelstraete

Opis

Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature is concerned with the ways in which 19th-century authors came to imagine nationhood in response to the emergent global market, and how contemporary economic innovations determined concepts of national and cultural self-identification.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Transatlantic Authorship as a Joint-Venture: Washington Irving and Herman Melville

1. Washington Irving











2. Herman Melville

Chapter 2: Transatlantic Authorship Incorporated: Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. Charles Dickens











2. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Chapter 3: Legal Fiction: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Anthony Trollope

3.1 E.D.E.N Southworth

3.2 Anthony Trollope

Chapter 4: Corporate Authorship and Authorial Self-fashioning: Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad

4.1 Thomas Hardy

4.2 Joseph Conrad

Conclusion

O autorze

Jasper Schelstraete is an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He defended his doctoral dissertation, "The Atlantic Between Them: Dickens, Melville, and Nationality in the Transatlantic Market" at Ghent University in August 2014. He has held a Belgian American Educational Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, and was awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship. His work has been published in English: Journal of the English Association, Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Dickens Quarterly.