Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century

Book Overview

Introduction: Reading, Reception, and the Rise of Transatlantic 'English'; Ann Wierda Rowland and Paul Westover.- 1. American Idiom: Sara Hale's Flora's Interpreter and the Figuration of National Identity; Kelli Towers Jasper.- 2. Bentley's 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; Scott Hess.- 8. Helen A. Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter: Literary Criticism in Author Country a Century Ago; Alison Booth.- 9. Transatlantic Reception and Commemoration of the 'Poet of the Scotch', Robert Burns; Christopher A. Whatley.- 10. Loving, Knowing, and Illustrating Keats: the Louis Arthur Holman Collection of Keats Iconography; Ann Wierda Rowland.- 11. The Unofficial Force" Irregular Author Love and the Higher Criticism; Charles J. Rzepka.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319813749
• ISBN13: 9783319813745
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"