Cover; Lecturing the Atlantic; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the Terminology of "England" and "Britain"; Introduction; 1. The American Lecture Hall and an Anglo-American Commons; 2. Britain and Antislavery: Frederick Douglass's Transatlantic Rhetoric; 3. Britain as Order: Listening to Ralph Waldo Emerson's "England"; 4. Britain as Prophecy: Horace Mann, Horace Greeley, and the Choreography of Reform; 5. Britain and Kinship: William Makepeace Thackeray as Cultural Commons; 6. Britain and Wartime Unity: Lola Montez and John B. Gough as Cultural Diplomats
Summary
Lecturing the Atlantic is a reinterpretation of the ""public lecture"" as one of the most important cultural forms of the nineteenth century Anglo-American world. Wright shows how key figures including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Makepeace Thackeray used the lecture hall to explore Anglo-American relations and themes of progress and national identity
