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Lecturing the Atlantic : speech, print, and an Anglo-American commons, 1830-1870
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"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 inclu...
"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.
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- Creator
- Tom F. Wright
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Physical Details
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- x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190496791, 0190496797, 9780190496814
- OCLC
- ocn965753906
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.