Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-260) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue. From sectional conflict to posthumous consecration. Part I. Anglo-American literary and cultural identities -- Race and nationhood in the mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic field -- Usable pasts: Anglo-American literature and the authority of tradition -- Part. II. Authority and authorisation in the Anglo-American print market -- 'Transatlantic bibliopoly': Carlyle's early American print career -- 'A yankee pocket edition of Carlyle'? Emerson on the British market -- Part III. Performing nationhood on the transatlantic lecture circuit -- Touring Anglo-America: Emerson as transatlantic lecturer -- (De-)authorising eloquence: Carlyle and transatlantic public speech -- Epilogue. From sectional conflict to posthumous consecration.
Summary:
"Examining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary, cultural, political and legal manifestations of authority on nineteenth-century British and American writing, publishing and lecturing. Drawing on primary texts in conjunction with a rich body of archival sources, this study retraces Romantic debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle's and Emerson's professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic."-- Back cover.
Series:
Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
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