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.
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.
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).
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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
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
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