Overview
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
