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Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century

✍ Scribed by Paul Westover, Ann Wierda Rowland (eds.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
381
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Reading, Reception, and the Rise of Transatlantic ‘English’....Pages 1-17
American Idiom: Sarah Hale’s Flora’s Interpreter and the Figuration of National Identity....Pages 19-47
Bentley’s Standard Novelist: James Fenimore Cooper....Pages 49-74
‘The American Tennyson’ and ‘The English Longfellow’: Inverted Audiences and Popular Poetry....Pages 75-98
The Americans in the ‘English Men of Letters’....Pages 99-120
‘The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode’: Hawthorne as Transatlantic Tour Guide in The Marble Faun and ‘The Old Manse’....Pages 121-151
The Transatlantic Home Network: Discovering Sir Walter Scott in American Authors’ Houses....Pages 153-174
Wordsworthshire and Thoreau Country: Transatlantic Landscapes of Genius....Pages 175-201
Helen A. Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter: Literary Criticism in Author Country a Century Ago....Pages 203-236
Transatlantic Reception and Commemoration of the ‘Poet of the Scotch’, Robert Burns....Pages 237-265
Loving, Knowing, and Illustrating Keats: The Louis Arthur Holman Collection of Keats Iconography....Pages 267-292
‘The Unofficial Force’: Irregular Author Love and the Higher Criticism....Pages 293-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-371

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature

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