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Author Adams, Amanda, 1977-

Title Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour / by Amanda Adams.

Publication Info. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Travel -- England.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Travel.
England.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Travel -- United States.
Authors, English.
United States.
American literature -- 19th century -- Appreciation -- England.
American literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- Appreciation -- United States.
English literature.
Lectures and lecturing -- United States.
Lectures and lecturing.
Lectures and lecturing -- England.
Authorship -- Marketing.
Authorship -- Marketing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Adams, Amanda, 1977- Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour 9781472416643 (DLC) 2013047659 (OCoLC)869458527
ISBN 9781472416650 (electronic book)
1472416651 (electronic book)
9781472416643
1472416643
9781472416667 (epub)