Amanda Adams

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317082477
• Artikelnr.: 45095932

Autorenporträt

Amanda Adams is Assistant Professor of English at Muskingum University, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, gender, and embodiment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour and the Case
of Frederick Douglass; Chapter 1 Seen and Not Heard: The Transatlantic
Tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe; Chapter 2 Performing
Ownership: Dickens, Twain, and Copyright on the Transatlantic Stage;
Chapter 3 Apostles in the Flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the Reproduction of
Personality in America; Chapter 4 The Voice of the Master: Henry James and
the Paradox of Performance; conclusion Performing Authorship beyond the
Nineteenth Century;