Tim Sommer, Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority
Literature, Print, Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21798264 |
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| Authors | Tom F Wright, Tom Wright (0000-0001-5071-9978, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transatlantica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/transatlantica.18163 |
| OpenAlex | W4283768634 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The bond between Thomas Carlyle and his younger American mentee Ralph Waldo Emerson was for a long time seen as the defining transatlantic partnership of the Anglophone nineteenth century. The productive tension between irascible Scot and enigmatic Yankee was seen as the era's inescapable double act. The frenemies that helped explain both Old World and New
Art · Literature · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History
| Highly cited | No |
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