ISBN:
9781443896429
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Dossena, Marina Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century : European and Transatlantic Perspectives
DDC:
305.80904099999998
Keywords:
Intellectual life--History--20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Distinctive in its markedly interdisciplinary approach, this book presents studies dealing with literary, cultural and linguistic history both in Europe and in the US, bringing together scholars from different fields, while highlighting features that are shared among their contributions. It offers new insights into phenomena which have generally been under-investigated, such as the role played by popular culture, music, and the arts in the circulation of information, in the construction of popular taste, and even in scientific popularisation on both sides of the Atlantic. As for the choice to focus on the nineteenth century, this is dictated by the fact that, in those decades, for the first time in history, scientific, technological, and social developments accelerated simultaneously. It is, therefore, important to see how such new knowledge was circulated among an ever-growing audience by means of different genres and text types, bearing in mind that divisions between the literary and non-literary were hardly as sharp as they are today.The book presents contributions by Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Nicholas Brownlees, Bruno Cartosio, Sonia Di Loreto, Aileen Dillane, Marina Dossena, Kirsten Lawson, Angela Locatelli, William H. Mulligan, Jr., Stefano Rosso, and Polina Shvanyukova
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- American Artists Look West -- The Winning of the Western -- America through the Eyes of Nineteenth-century Scots -- Irish Traditional Music Dissemination at the End of the Long 19th Century -- Fanny Fern and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture -- Victorian and Postmodern Hybrid "Language Games" -- Doing Battle for the Truth -- Reporting the United States of America in the Liverpool Mercury (1812) -- Antiquarian, Academic, or Practical? -- Strategies of Knowledge Transmission and Dissemination of Values in Nineteenth-century Letter-writing Guides -- Letters from "Somewhere in France" -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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