A study of the twentieth-century transatlantic literary lecture tour, with a focus on the role that this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors: Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction: Modernism, On the Circuit
- 1: Curiosity: Oscar Wilde, P.T. Barnum, and the Culture of Self-Improvement
- 2: Diplomat: W.B. Yeats and the Voice of Ireland
- 3: Guru: Rabindranath Tagore's Political Spirit
- 4: Documentarian: Touring the Great Depression with Gertrude Stein
- 5: Correspondent: Speech and Allegory in W.H. Auden's World War II Lectures
- Coda: The End of the Tour
