Author : Amanda Adams
Release : 2016-05-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour write by Amanda Adams. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.