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):

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

Lectures and lecturing.

Lecturers--United States--Biography.

Lecturers.

Lecturers--Great Britain--Biography.

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

Reading.

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

Commons.

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

Political oratory.

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

Nationalism.

United States--Relations--Great Britain.

United States.

Great Britain--Relations--United States.

Great Britain.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'Lecturing the Atlantic' argues for a new interpretation of the public lecture, as one of the 19th-century Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms.

Contents:

The American lecture hall and an Anglo-American commons

Britain and antislavery : 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 as cultural diplomats

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-066195-X

0-19-049681-9

0-19-049680-0