| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Modernism, On the Circuit -- Curiosity : Oscar Wilde, P.T. Barnum, and the Culture of Self-Improvement -- Diplomat: W.B. Yeats and the Voice of Ireland -- Guru : Rabindranath Tagore's Political Spirit -- Documentarian : Touring the Great Depression with Gertrude Stein -- Correspondent : Speech and Allegory in W.H. Auden's World War II Lectures -- Coda: The End of the Tour |
| Summary |
A study of the twentieth-century transatlantic literary lecture tour, with a focus on the role that this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors: Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 4, 2021) |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Appreciation
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Lectures and lecturing -- United States
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Lectures and lecturing
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192645531 |
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0192645536 |
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9780191914652 |
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0191914657 |
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