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

ISBN-13: 9781474491945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

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Spis treści

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.