Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour: In Person

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour: In Person
ISBN-10
1472416643
ISBN-13
9781472416643
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
178
Language
English
Published
2014-07-02
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Amanda Adams

Description

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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