Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks

This Study Seeks To Fill A Major Gap In The Fields Of Nineteenth-century American And British Studies By Examining How Nineteenth-century Intellectuals Shaped And Re-shaped Aesthetic Traditions Across The Atlantic Ocean. Special Attention Is Paid To A Group Of Salient Cultural Concepts, Such As Artist-as-hero, Imagination, The Picturesque, Reform, Simultaneity, And Seriality. Although Embedded In A Particular Aesthetic Tradition, These Concepts Travel From One Culture To Another And Are Transformed Along Their Transatlantic Journeys. The Purpose Of This Book Is To Explore The Roles Of These {u2018}traveling Concepts{u2019} Within The Realm Of Transatlantic Cultures And To Trace Their At Times Surprising Paths Within Ever-widening Transnational Intellectual Networks. Preface -- Part I: The American Renaissance Revisited -- 1 Transatlantic Literary Networks: E. A. Poe From Germany To Russia To Chicago / Jonathan Arac -- 2 American Realism In Its Transatlantic Context / Winfried Fluck -- 3 Genteel Pragmatism In Nineteenth-century America And Great Britain / Ellen Redling -- Part Ii: Cultural Authority And Transatlantic Aesthetics -- 4 The (traveling) Reform Tradition In Nineteenth-century Anglo-america / Leslie Butler -- 5 Of Heroes And Mockingbirds: Transatlantic Translations And The Struggle Between 'high' And 'low' Cultures In Nineneeth-century America / Erik Redling -- 6 The Transatlantic Dante In The Nineteenth Century: Literary Authority And Reception Histories / Julia Straub -- 7 The Artist As Hero: Nineteenth-century Concepts Of Authorship In A Transatlantic Perspective / Günter Leypoldt -- Part Iii: Broadening The Genteel Circle: Race And Gender -- 8 Frederick Douglass, Photography And Imagination / John Stauffer -- 9 Romantic Folk Culture And The Souls Of Black Folk: Framing The Beginnings Of African-american Culture Studies On Cross-atlantic Traveling Concepts / Werner Nell -- 10 Fuller, Feminism, Foreign Correspondence / Sabine Sielke -- 11 Byronic Heroines And Darwinian Types: Southern Women's (post-) Bellum Identity Construction / Julia Nitz -- Part Iv: The Medium Is The Message: Transatlantic Media Networks -- 12 Stereocopy And The Global Picturesque / Rachel Teukolsky -- 13 On Transatlantic Simultaneity And Misunderstanding Telegraphy / Christopher Hanlon -- 14 (un)settling North America: The Yankee In The Writings Of John Neal And Thomas Chandler Haliburton / Stefanie Schäfer -- 15 Transatlantic Politics As Serial Networks In The German-american City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855 / Daniel Stein -- Contributors -- Index. Edited By Erik Redling. Papers Presented At A Conference Held In Halle-wittenberg In April, 2014. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.