1st Edition
Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour
By Amanda Adams
Copyright 2014
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction The Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour and the Case of Frederick Douglass; Chapter 1 Seen and Not Heard: The Transatlantic Tours of Harriet Martineau and Harriet Beecher Stowe; Chapter 2 Performing Ownership: Dickens, Twain, and Copyright on the Transatlantic Stage; Chapter 3 Apostles in the Flesh: Arnold, Wilde, and the Reproduction of Personality in America; Chapter 4 The Voice of the Master: Henry James and the Paradox of Performance; conclusion Performing Authorship beyond the Nineteenth Century;
Biography
Amanda Adams is Assistant Professor of English at Muskingum University, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic culture, gender, and embodiment.
’Each chapter of Amanda Adams’s engaging book tells an interesting story about the emergence of literary celebrity in the second half of the nineteenth century and about the ways in which public performance represented an attempt to control textual reputations.’ Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh, UK
