Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century

381 Pages·2016·5.059 MB·English

by  Paul Westover, Ann Wierda Rowland (eds.)

Transatlantic Literature and Author
Love in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by
Paul Westover and Ann Wierda Rowland
Palgrave Studies in
Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
General Editor: Joseph Bristow
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing
and Culture
Series Editor
Joseph   Bristow
Department of English
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles ,   California, U SA
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture is a new
monograph series that aims to represent the most innovative research on
literary works that were produced in the English-speaking world from the
time of the Napoleonic Wars to the fi n de siécle. Attentive to the histori-
cal continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the series will feature
studies that help scholarship to reassess the meaning of these terms during
a century marked by diverse cultural, literary, and political movements.
The main aim of the series is to look at the increasing infl uence of types of
historicism on our understanding of literary forms and genres. It refl ects
the shift from critical theory to cultural history that has affected not only
the period 1800-1900 but also every fi eld within the discipline of English
literature. All titles in the series seek to offer fresh critical perspectives
and challenging readings of both canonical and non-canonical writings of
this era. Editorial Board: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, University of
London, UK; Josephine McDonagh, Kings College, London, UK; Yopie
Prins, University of Michigan, USA; Lindsay Smith, University of Sussex,
UK; Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware, USA; Jenny Bourne Taylor,
University of Sussex, UK.
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Paul W estover • Ann W ierda Rowland
Editors
Transatlantic
Literature and Author
Love in the
Nineteenth Century
Editors
Paul Westover Ann Wierda Rowland
Brigham Young University The University of Kansas
Spanish Fork, Utah , USA Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISBN 978-3-319-32819-5 ISBN 978-3-319-32820-1 (eBook)
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors received generous research and travel support from their
departments and colleges.
In particular, thanks to BYU’s Humanities Center and Romantic and
Victorian Study Group (RVSG) for facilitating Ann Rowland’s visit to
Utah—key for our collaboration—and for funding Ann Rigney’s germinal
visit to BYU campus in 2014.
Thanks to Anna Neill, Chair of the English Department at the
University of Kansas, for locating resources in the department to help
defray the expense of illustration permissions.
Thanks to the helpful people at Palgrave Macmillan, notably Benjamin
Doyle, Tomas René, and Joseph Bristow, our series editor. We are grateful
also to the press’s anonymous reader.
The Wasatch Romantic and Eighteenth-Century Studies Symposium
(WRECS, October 2014) provided an opportunity to workshop ideas
for this volume. Participants included Scott Black, Jeff Cowton, Mary
Eyring, Andy Franta, Evan Gottlieb, Billy Hall, Nicholas Mason, Michael
McGregor, Padma Rangarajan, Jon Sachs, and Matthew Wickman. Thanks
to all.
BYU’s Faculty Editing Service has been terrifi c. Meeting our ambitious
publication schedule, especially in light of other obligations, would have
been impossible without the assistance of Jennifer McDaniel and her staff.
Above all, we thank our contributors, who add their own acknowledg-
ments in individual chapters.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: Reading, Reception, and the Rise of 
Transatlantic ‘English’ 1
Ann Wierda Rowland and P aul Westover
2 American Idiom: Sarah Hale’s F lora’s Interpreter
and the Figuration of National Identity 19
Kelli Towers Jasper
3 Bentley’s Standard Novelist: James Fenimore Cooper 4 9
Joseph Rezek
4 ‘The American Tennyson’ and ‘The English Longfellow’:
Inverted Audiences and Popular Poetry 7 5
Sharon Estes
5 The Americans in the ‘English Men of Letters’ 9 9
Ryan Stuart Lowe
6 ‘The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with 
His Abode’: Hawthorne as Transatlantic Tour Guide
in  The Marble Faun and ‘The Old Manse’ 121
Charles Baraw
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7 The Transatlantic Home Network: Discovering Sir
Walter Scott in American Authors’ Houses 1 53
Paul Westover
8 Wordsworthshire and Thoreau Country: Transatlantic
Landscapes of Genius 175
Scott Hess
9 Helen A. Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter:
Literary Criticism in Author Country a Century Ago 203
Alison Booth
10 Transatlantic Reception and Commemoration of the 
‘Poet of the Scotch’, Robert Burns 237
Christopher A. Whatley
11 Loving, Knowing, and Illustrating Keats: The 
Louis Arthur Holman Collection of Keats Iconography 267
Ann Wierda Rowland
12 ‘The Unoffi cial Force’: Irregular Author Love and 
the Higher Criticism 293
Charles J. Rzepka
Bibliography 321
Index 3 49
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IST OF ONTRIBUTORS
Charles   Baraw h as taught courses on nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and
contemporary American literature at Yale, Wesleyan, and Southern Connecticut
State University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of English. He is
working on a book called Reading Encounters , a study on the mutual relations of
travel, reading, and literary form in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, William
Wells Brown, and other American writers. His article on Brown, ‘William Wells
Brown, Three Years in Europe, and Fugitive Tourism’, won the 2012 Darwin
T. Turner Award for the Year’s Best Essay in the A frican American Review .
Alison   Booth , P rofessor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of
Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cornell, 1992) and How to
Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
(Chicago, 2004). She is also the editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender
and Narrative Closure (University of Virginia, 1993), the Longman Cultural
Edition of Wuthering Heights (2009), and The Norton Introduction to Literature
(8th–10th editions). Her articles on women writers, narrative, and fi lm have
appeared in such journals as V ictorian Studies , Narrative , and Kenyon
Review . Booth directs the Collective Biographies of Women project with support
of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, an ACLS Digital
Innovation Fellowship, and an NEH Level II Start-up Grant. Her study of Clarke
and Porter relates to themes in her forthcoming book, H omes and Haunts: Visiting
Writers’ Shrines and Countries (Oxford, 2016), on transatlantic literary tourism,
house museums, and topo-biography.
Sharon   Estes r eceived her PhD in English from the Ohio State University in 2013
and is associate professor of Language and Literature at Bucks County Community
College. The essay in this collection unites her research interests in transatlantic
reading, publishing, and circulation of texts with a current larger project that
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