Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour (Paperback)

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 1834 to 1904, Adams's book examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and complexity.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2014
Authors:	Amanda Adams
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-27129-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	1-138-27129-2
Barcode:	9781138271296

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