Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour - Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies - Amanda Adams - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138271296 - November 25, 2016
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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour - Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies 1st edition

Amanda Adams

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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour - Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies 1st edition

Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time when authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were international. Spanning the years from 1834 to 1904, Adams?s book examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and complexity.


178 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 25, 2016
ISBN13 9781138271296
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 178
Dimensions 233 × 158 × 12 mm   ·   290 g
Language English  

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