Amanda Adams

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781472416643
• ISBN-10: 1472416643
• Artikelnr.: 44800718

Autorenporträt

Amanda Adams is Assistant Professor of English at Muskingum University, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, gender, and embodiment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour and the Case
of Frederick Douglass; Chapter 1 Seen and Not Heard: The Transatlantic
Tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe; Chapter 2 Performing
Ownership: Dickens, Twain, and Copyright on the Transatlantic Stage;
Chapter 3 Apostles in the Flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the Reproduction of
Personality in America; Chapter 4 The Voice of the Master: Henry James and
the Paradox of Performance; conclusion Performing Authorship beyond the
Nineteenth Century;