Lecturing the Atlantic : speech print and an Anglo American commons 1830 1870 The US lecture hall and an Anglo American commons Britain and anti slavery : Frederick Douglasss transatlantic rhetoric Britain as order : listening to Ralph Waldo Emersons England Britain as prophecy : Horace Greeley Horace Mann and the choreography of reform Britain and kinship : William Makepeace Thackeray as cultural commons Britain and wartime unity : Lola Montez and John B. Goughs cultural diplomacy Epilogue Lecturing the Atlantic is a re interpretation of the public lecture as one of the most important cultural forms of the nineteenth century Anglo American world. Wright shows how key figures including Frederick Douglass Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Makepeace Thackeray used the lecture hall to explore Anglo American relations and themes of progress and national identity Provided by publisher