{"product_id":"carlyle-emerson-and-the-transatlantic-uses-of-authority-9781474491952","title":"Carlyle Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary, cultural, political and legal manifestations of authority on nineteenth-century British and American writing, publishing and lecturing. Drawing on primary texts in conjunction with a rich body of archival sources, this study retraces Romantic debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle?s and Emerson?s professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emerson and Carlyle were an odd couple and a transatlantic cultural powerhouse. Their decades-long exchange electrified literary circuits and jolted thinking about historiography, race, nationhood, copyright and lecturing, as Tim Sommer shows. This shrewd study of the nineteenth century's alternating currents of cultural authority snaps and crackles with insights.\" -Mich le Mendelssohn, Oxford University","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408897843543,"sku":"9781474491952","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474491952.jpg?v=1730504611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carlyle-emerson-and-the-transatlantic-uses-of-authority-9781474491952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}