<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Analyses Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson against the background of Anglo-American print culture and oral performance.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Examining 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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Tim Sommer is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University and at the University of Cambridge. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as <i>Romanticism</i>, <i>Book History</i>, <i>The New England Quarterly</i> and <i>The Wordsworth Circle</i>.<p>
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