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The Novel of Purpose

Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World

By: Amanda Claybaugh

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The Novel of Purpose

Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World

By: Amanda Claybaugh

In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists—gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers—and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them are some of the century's most important authors: Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Mark Twain. The Novel of Purpose proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Claybaugh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nations, but also to the many groups that collaborate across national boundaries.

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Cornell University Press

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The Novel of Purpose

Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World

By: Amanda Claybaugh

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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

By: Amanda Adams

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Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

By: Amanda Adams

Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time when authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were international. Spanning the years from 1834 to 1904, Adams’s book examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and complexity.

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Routledge

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1317082478

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Bleak Liberalism

By: Amanda Anderson

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Bleak Liberalism

By: Amanda Anderson

Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno -- Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing

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University of Chicago Press

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0226923525

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9780226923529

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The Novel of Purpose

The Novel of Purpose

The Novel of Purpose

The Novel of Purpose

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Lecture Tour

Bleak Liberalism

Bleak Liberalism

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