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Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century [Hardcover]

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Category: Books (Literary Criticism)
ISBN-10: 3319328190
ISBN-10: 3319328190
ISBN-13: 9783319328195
ISBN-13: 9783319328195
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Apr-2016
Pub Date: 01-Apr-2016
SKU: 3319328190-11-SPRI
SKU: 3319328190-11-SPRI
Item ID: 100569265
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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 print, but also in other media: in monuments, in architecture, and in the ephemera of material culture. Thus, this collection brings into view a wide range of nineteenth-century expressions of love for literature and its creators. 

Introduction: Reading, Reception, and the Rise of Transatlantic English; Ann Wierda Rowland and Paul Westover.- 1. American Idiom: Sara Hales Floras Interpreter and the Figuration of National Identity; Kelli Towers Jasper.- 2. Bentleys Standard Novelist: James Fenimore Cooper; Joseph Rezek.- 3. The American Tennyson and The English Longfellow: Inverted Audiences and Popular Poetry; Sharon Estes.- 4. The Americans in the English Men of Letters; Ryan Stuart Lowe.- 5. The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode: Hawthorne as Transatlantic Tour Guide in The Marble Faun and The Old Manse; Charles Baraw.- 6. The Transatlantic Home Network: Discovering Sir Walter Scott in American Authors Houses; Paul Westover.- 7. Wordsworthshire and Thoreau Country: Transatlantic Landscapes of Genius; Scotl.