Tom F Wright

Lecturing the Atlantic

Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

Lecturing the Atlantic is a reinterpretation of the "public lecture" as one of the most important cultural forms of the nineteenth century Anglo-American world. Wright shows how key figures including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Makepeace Thackeray used the lecture hall to explore Anglo-American relations and themes of progress and national identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190496791
• ISBN-10: 0190496797
• Artikelnr.: 47869678

Autorenporträt

Tom F. Wright is Lecturer of English at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America (UMass Press, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1: The US Lecture Hall and an Anglo-American Commons
2. Britain and Anti-Slavery
3. Britain as Order
4. Britain as Prophecy
5. Britain and Kinship
6. Britain and Wartime Unity
Epilogue