Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

by Amanda Adams

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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 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138271292

ISBN13:9781138271296

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:178 Pages

Weight:0.57 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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