Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority
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lecturing
nineteenth-century literature
print market
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Carlyle
transatlantic
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- ISBN 9781474491952
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Analyses Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson against the background of Anglo-American print culture and oral performance
Develops a new analytical framework for the study of nineteenth-century transatlantic writing that combines literary studies, book history and cultural sociology
Reframes canonical works through unfamiliar texts and contexts
Draws on a rich body of archival sources and historical periodical publications
Offers an in-depth account of nineteenth-century Anglo-American print culture and the transatlantic lecture system
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.
Tim Sommer is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University and at the University of Cambridge. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Romanticism, Book History, The New England Quarterly and The Wordsworth Circle.
