Lecturing the Atlantic
Subtitle: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons, 1830-1870
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780190496791
Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Commons; Political oratory; Nationalism, united states; United states, relations, great britain; Great britain, relations, foreign countries; United states, intellectual life
Description: "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.