Performing Authorship In The Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour
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Author |
: Amanda Adams |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 179 |
Release |
: 2016-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317082484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317082486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour by : Amanda Adams
Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time when authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were international. Spanning the years from 1834 to 1904, Adams’s book examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and complexity.
Author |
: Dr Amanda Adams |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 179 |
Release |
: 2014-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472416643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472416643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour by : Dr Amanda Adams
Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams examines tours by British and American authors, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde, arguing that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship at a time when authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were international.
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Total Pages |
: 688 |
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: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131550340 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
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: N. Watson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2006-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230584563 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023058456X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Literary Tourist by : N. Watson
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1690 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000057122250 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by :
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: Tom F. Wright |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1625340591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781625340597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cosmopolitan Lyceum by : Tom F. Wright
From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the lyceum movement flourished across the United States. At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues, captivated by the words of visiting orators who spoke on an extensive range of topics. The movement was a major intellectual and cultural force of this nation-building period, forming the creative environment of writers and public figures such as Frederic Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anna Dickinson, and Mark Twain. The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterized as inward looking and nationalistic. Yet as this collection of essays reveals, nineteenth-century audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe, and lecturers frequently spoke to their fellow Americans of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand exotic ways of life. Never simple in its engagement with cosmopolitan ideas, the lyceum provided a powerful public encounter with international currents and crosscurrents, foreshadowing the problems and paradoxes that continue to resonate in our globalized world. This book offers a major reassessment of this important cultural phenomenon, bringing together diverse scholars from history, rhetoric, and literary studies. The twelve essays use a range of approaches, cover a wide chronological timespan, and discuss a variety of performers both famous and obscure. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Robert Arbour, Thomas Augst, Susan Branson, Virginia Garnett, Peter Gibian, Sara Lampert, Angela Ray, Evan Roberts, Paul Stob, Mary Zboray, and Ronald Zboray.
Author |
: Lloyd Pratt |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2011-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812203530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812203534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Archives of American Time by : Lloyd Pratt
American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people. In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Through discussions that link literature's essential qualities to social theories of modernity, Lloyd Pratt asserts that the competition between these varied temporalities forestalled the consolidation of national and racial identity. Paying close attention to the relationship between literary genre and theories of nationalism, race, and regionalism, Archives of American Time shows how the fine details of literary genres tell against the notion that they helped to create national, racial, or regional communities. Its chapters focus on images of invasive forms of print culture, the American historical romance, African American life writing, and Southwestern humor. Each in turn revises our sense of how these images and genres work in such a way as to reconnect them to a broad literary and social history of modernity. At precisely the moment when American authors began self-consciously to quest after a future in which national and racial identity would reign triumphant over all, their writing turned out to restructure time in a way that began foreclosing on that particular future.
Author |
: Andrew King |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2016-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317042310 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131704231X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers by : Andrew King
The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE
Author |
: Ann R. Hawkins |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438485560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438485565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America by : Ann R. Hawkins
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Author |
: João Pedro Marques |
Publisher |
: ITESO |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571814477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571814470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sounds of Silence by : João Pedro Marques
Portugal was the pioneer of the transatlantic slave trade, the ruler of both Brazil and Angola -- the all time champions of that trade --, and one of the last western countries to decree the abolition of slaving institutions. Paradoxically, and in spite of the overwhelming number of works devoted to the problems of slavery produced in recent decades, little was known about the way Portugal dealt with the twilight of the age of slavery and, most of all, with abolitionism. This book offers the first study of the abolition of the Portuguese slave trade, covering the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-1860s, and bringing to life a dark and silenced corner in the history of the odious commerce. Based on a thorough examination of Portuguese and British historical sources -- most of them never used before --, and on his awareness of the international scholarship in the field in which he writes, it investigates not only the Portuguese pro and anti-abolitionist attitudes but also the underlying ideologies, and whether and how those attitudes and ideologies changed over time and in the light of events in the political, economic and social spheres.