Lecturing the Atlantic : speech, print, and an Anglo-American commons, 1830-1870 / Tom F. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Tom F., 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political oratory.

History.

Commons.

Reading.

Lecturers.

Lectures and lecturing.

United States--Relations--Great Britain.

United States.

Relations.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Relations--United States.

Lectures and lecturing--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Lecturers--United States--Biography.

Lecturers--Great Britain--Biography.

Reading--Political aspects--History--19th century.

Commons--Political aspects--History--19th century.

Political oratory--United States--History--19th century.

Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Lecturing the Atlantic is a re-interpretation 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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The US lecture hall and an Anglo-American commons

Britain and anti-slavery : Frederick Douglass's transatlantic rhetoric

Britain as order : listening to Ralph Waldo Emerson's "England"

Britain as prophecy : Horace Greeley, Horace Mann and the choreography of reform

Britain and kinship : William Makepeace Thackeray as cultural commons

Britain and wartime unity : Lola Montez and John B. Gough's cultural diplomacy

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190496791

0190496797

OCLC:

965753906