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Author Adams, Amanda, 1977-

Title Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour / by Amanda Adams
Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014

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Series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Contents Introduction: In person: the nineteenth-century transatlantic lecture tour -- Seen and not heard: the transatlantic tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Performing ownership: Dickens, Twain, and copyright on the transatlantic stage -- Apostles in the flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the reproduction of personality in America -- The voice of the master: Henry James and the paradox of performance -- Conclusion: Performing authorship beyond the nineteenth century
Summary 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 examines tours by British and American authors, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde, arguing that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship at a time when authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were international
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Travel -- England
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Travel -- United States
American literature -- 19th century -- Appreciation -- England
English literature -- 19th century -- Appreciation -- United States
Lectures and lecturing -- United States
Lectures and lecturing -- England
Authorship -- Marketing.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Appreciation
Authors, American -- Travel
Authors, English -- Travel
Authorship -- Marketing
English literature -- Appreciation
Lectures and lecturing
England
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781472416650
1472416651
9781472416643
1472416643