Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

1: The US Lecture Hall and an Anglo-American Commons

2. Britain and Anti-Slavery

3. Britain as Order

4. Britain as Prophecy

5. Britain and Kinship

6. Britain and Wartime Unity

Epilogue

About the Author

Tom F. Wright is Lecturer of English at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America (UMass Press, 2013).

Reviews

"[The] book offers an important transatlantic rethinking of the relationship between public speech and modern literary nationalism." -- The Year's Work in English Studies