12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited
5. 1. Transatlantic Literary Networks: E. A. Poe from Germany to Russia to Chicago 3
6. 2. American Realism in Its Transatlantic Context 17
7. 3. Genteel Pragmatism in Nineteenth-Century America and Great Britain 35
8. Part II: Cultural Authority and Transatlantic Aesthetics
9. 4. The (Traveling) Reform Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Anglo- America 49
10. 5. Of Heroes and Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations and the Struggle between ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Cultures in Nineteenth-Century America 63
11. 6. The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority and Reception Histories 79
12. 7. The Artist as Hero: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Authorship in a Transatlantic Perspective 95
13. Part III: Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender
14. 8. Frederick Douglass, Photography, and Imagination 113
15. 9. Romantic Folk Culture and The Souls of Black Folk: Framing the Beginnings of African-American Culture Studies in Cross-Atlantic Traveling Concepts 139
16. 10. Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence 157
17. 11. Byronic Heroines and Darwinian Types: Southern Women’s (Post-) Bellum Identity Construction 171
18. Part IV: The Medium is the Message: Transatlantic Media Networks
19. 12. Stereoscopy and the Global Picturesque 189
20. 13. On Transatlantic Simultaneity and Misunderstanding Telegraphy 213
21. 14. (Un)Settling North America: The Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton 231
22. 15. Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850–1855 247
23. Contributors 267
24. Index 271