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Traveling Traditions : Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks / Erik Redling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 53.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110411744
  • 3110411741
  • 9783110411782
  • 3110411784
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Traveling traditions : nineteenth-century cultural concepts and transatlantic intellectual networks.DDC classification:
  • 941.081
LOC classification:
  • P94.6
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited -- 1. Transatlantic Literary Networks: E.A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago -- 2. American Realism in Its Transatlantic Context -- 3. Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century America and Great Britain -- Part II: Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics -- 4. The (Traveling) Reform Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo- America -- 5. Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations and the Struggle between 'High' and 'Low' Cultures in Nineteenth-Century America -- 6. The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority and Reception Histories -- 7. The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective -- Part III: Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender -- 8. Frederick Douglass, Photography, and Imagination -- 9. Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Traveling Concepts -- 10. Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence -- 11. Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women's (Post- ) Bellum Identity Construction -- Part IV: The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks -- 12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque -- 13. On Transatlantic Simultaneity and Misunderstanding Telegraphy -- 14. (Un)Settling North America: The Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- 15. Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855 -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shape and re-shape aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. The study explores the roles of salient traveling concepts, such as realism, translation, the picturesque, and imagination, and traces their at times surprising paths within ever-widening transnational intellectual networks.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 21, 2016).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited -- 1. Transatlantic Literary Networks: E.A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago -- 2. American Realism in Its Transatlantic Context -- 3. Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century America and Great Britain -- Part II: Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics -- 4. The (Traveling) Reform Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo- America -- 5. Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations and the Struggle between 'High' and 'Low' Cultures in Nineteenth-Century America -- 6. The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority and Reception Histories -- 7. The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective -- Part III: Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender -- 8. Frederick Douglass, Photography, and Imagination -- 9. Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Traveling Concepts -- 10. Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence -- 11. Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women's (Post- ) Bellum Identity Construction -- Part IV: The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks -- 12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque -- 13. On Transatlantic Simultaneity and Misunderstanding Telegraphy -- 14. (Un)Settling North America: The Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- 15. Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855 -- Contributors -- Index.

This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shape and re-shape aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. The study explores the roles of salient traveling concepts, such as realism, translation, the picturesque, and imagination, and traces their at times surprising paths within ever-widening transnational intellectual networks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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