Knowledge dissemination in the long nineteenth century : European and Transatlantic perspectives / edited by Marina Dossena and Stefano Rosso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- American artists look West -- The winning of the Western -- America through the eyes of nineteenth-century scots: the case of Ego documents and popular culture -- Irish traditional music dissemination at the end of the long nineteenth century: Francis O'Neill's music of Ireland (1903) and the city of Chicago -- Fanny fern and nineteenth-century print culture -- Victorian and postmodern hybrid "Language games" reading Tolstoy's On the significance of science and art -- Doing battle for the truth: Stevenson's struggles with communicating knowledge -- Reporting the United States of America in the Liverpool mercury (1812) -- Antiquarian, academic, or practical? Geologic knowledge in nineteenth-century Ireland -- Strategies of knowledge transmission and dissemination of values in nineteenth-century letter-writing guides -- Letters from "somewhere in France": reconstructing knowledge of life in the Trenches through Epistolary discourse.

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