Lecturing The Atlantic Is A Re-interpretation Of The 'public Lecture' As One Of The Most Important Cultural Forms Of The Nineteenth Century Anglo-american World. Wright Shows How Key Figures Including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson And William Makepeace Thackeray Used The Lecture Hall To Explore Anglo-american Relations And Themes Of Progress And National Identity--provided By Publisher. The Us Lecture Hall And An Anglo-american Commons -- Britain And Anti-slavery : Frederick Douglass's Transatlantic Rhetoric -- Britain As Order : Listening To Ralph Waldo Emerson's England -- Britain As Prophecy : Horace Greeley, Horace Mann And The Choreography Of Reform -- Britain And Kinship : William Makepeace Thackeray As Cultural Commons -- Britain And Wartime Unity : Lola Montez And John B. Gough's Cultural Diplomacy -- Epilogue. Tom F. Wright. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 201-240) And Index.