Lecturing The Atlantic: Speech, Print, And An Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870

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.

• | Author: Tom F. Wright
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 265 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0190496797
• | ISBN-13: 9780190496791