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Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
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Description for Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Westover, Paul; Rowland, Ann Wierda. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 385 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights how, in the wake of American independence, the affection bestowed on authors who became international objects of celebration and commemoration was a major force in the invention of transnational ‘English’ literature, the popular canon defined by shared language and tradition. While love as such is difficult to quantify and recover, the records of such affection survive not just in ... Read more
This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights how, in the wake of American independence, the affection bestowed on authors who became international objects of celebration and commemoration was a major force in the invention of transnational ‘English’ literature, the popular canon defined by shared language and tradition. While love as such is difficult to quantify and recover, the records of such affection survive not just in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319328195
SKU
V9783319328195
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About N/A
Paul Westover is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), co-editor of the Romantic Circles edition of Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes (2015), and Book Review Editor for the Journal of British Studies. Ann Wierda Rowland is Associate Professor of English at ... Read more
Reviews for Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
“The volume as a whole proves unusually elegant in conception and rewards reading straight through. A thorough and careful introduction is followed by a series of meticulously edited, carefully contextualized, frequently illustrated, and often imaginatively constructed individual case studies by a mix of scholars, which effectively showcase several possible methodologies for studying transatlantic literary culture.” (Nicola J. Watson, Victorian Studies, ... Read more