Carlyle, Emerson and the transatlantic uses of authority : literature, print, performance / Tim Sommer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommer, Tim (Philologist), author.

Series:

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Carlyle, Thomas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Authority in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Examining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary, cultural, political and legal manifestations of authority on nineteenth-century British and American writing, publishing and lecturing. Drawing on primary texts in conjunction with a rich body of archival sources, this study retraces Romantic debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle's and Emerson's professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Culture and the Uses of Authority

Part I: Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Identities

1 Race and Nationhood in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Field

2 Usable Pasts: Anglo-American Literature and the Authority of Tradition

Part II: Authority and Authorisation in the Anglo-American Print Market

3 ‘Transatlantic Bibliopoly’: Carlyle’s Early American Print Career

4 ‘A Yankee Pocket Edition of Carlyle’? Emerson on the British Market

Part III: Performing Nationhood on the Transatlantic Lecture Circuit

5 Touring Anglo-America: Emerson as Transatlantic Lecturer

6 (De-)Authorising Eloquence: Carlyle and Transatlantic Public Speech

Epilogue: From Sectional Conflict to Posthumous Consecration

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Sommer, Tim Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority

ISBN:

1-4744-9197-9

1-3995-0956-X

1-4744-9196-0

OCLC:

1292145751