4 ‘A Yankee Pocket Edition of Carlyle’? Emerson on the British Market

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Culture and the Uses of Authority 1
6. Part I: Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Identities
7. 1 Race and Nationhood in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Field 39
8. 2 Usable Pasts: Anglo-American Literature and the Authority of Tradition 69
9. Part II: Authority and Authorisation in the Anglo-American Print Market
10. 3 ‘Transatlantic Bibliopoly’: Carlyle’s Early American Print Career 103
11. 4 ‘A Yankee Pocket Edition of Carlyle’? Emerson on the British Market 132
12. Part III: Performing Nationhood on the Transatlantic Lecture Circuit
13. 5 Touring Anglo-America: Emerson as Transatlantic Lecturer 163
14. 6 (De-)Authorising Eloquence: Carlyle and Transatlantic Public Speech 194
15. Epilogue: From Sectional Conflict to Posthumous Consecration 223
16. Bibliography 236
17. Index 261