Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Traveling Traditions

Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks

Edited by: Erik Redling

Volume 53 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411744

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About this book

This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shaped and re-shaped aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. Special attention is paid to a group of salient cultural concepts, such as artist-as-hero, imagination, the picturesque, reform, simultaneity, and seriality. Although embedded in a particular aesthetic tradition, these concepts travel from one culture to another and are transformed along their transatlantic journeys. The purpose of this book is to explore the roles of these ‘traveling concepts’ within the realm of transatlantic cultures and to trace their at times surprising paths within ever-widening transnational intellectual networks.

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Erik Redling, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited
1. Transatlantic Literary Networks: E. A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago Jonathan Arac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. American Realism in Its Transatlantic Context Winfried Fluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century America and Great Britain Ellen Redling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II: Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics
4. The (Traveling) Reform Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo- America Leslie Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5. Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations and the Struggle between ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Cultures in Nineteenth-Century America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6. The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority and Reception Histories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
7. The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part III: Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender
8. Frederick Douglass, Photography, and Imagination John Stauffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
9. Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Traveling Concepts Werner Nell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
10. Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence Sabine Sielke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
11. Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women’s (Post-) Bellum Identity Construction Julia Nitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part IV: The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks
12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
13. On Transatlantic Simultaneity and Misunderstanding Telegraphy Christopher Hanlon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
14. (Un)Settling North America: The Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton Stefanie Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
15. Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850–1855 Daniel Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 273
Keywords: Traveling Concepts; Nineteenth Century; Transatlantic Networks

eBook

Published: March 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110411744

Hardcover

Published: March 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110411669