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Commemorating Abraham Lincoln the Transnational Way
Lincoln Monuments in Great Britain
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 306
2020
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Abstract
The book investigates the genesis, aesthetics, and ceremonial unveilings of three statues of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th American President, in Edinburgh (1893), Manchester (1919), and London (1920). Using methodology from the fields of Visual Culture Studies, Memory Studies, and Transnational American Studies, the analysis demonstrates how the British and American Memory Actors used the installations of the Lincoln statues and the ceremonial unveiling performances to construct an imagined transnational collective identity by turning Abraham Lincoln into a transnational symbol unifying the peoples of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Therefore, the statues not only function as manifestations of this Anglo-American friendship, but also as factors in the cultural construction and emergence of the Great Rapprochement on a racially induced basis which would later turn into the Special Relationship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 7 | ||
| Content | 9 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 11 | ||
| 2 Memory Actors: The Men Behind the Monuments | 39 | ||
| 2.1 From a Burying Place to a Lincoln Monument: Dedicating a Monument to Scottish-American Civil War Veterans in Edinburgh | 40 | ||
| 2.2 One Occasion, Two Statues: Lincoln’s Long Way to London and Manchester | 44 | ||
| 3 Iconography and Space: Three Different Lincolns Creating Transnational Spaces in Britain | 93 | ||
| 3.1 George Edwin Bissell’s “Emancipation Group” in Edinburgh | 101 | ||
| 3.2 George Grey Barnard’s “Lincoln” in Manchester | 128 | ||
| 3.3 Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s “Abraham Lincoln: The Man” in London, England | 142 | ||
| 3.4 Three Lincolns Creating Three Different Transnational Spaces | 171 | ||
| 4 Staging Lincoln Memory? The Public Unveiling Ceremonies as Forums for Transnational Discourses of Collective Memory and Identity | 177 | ||
| 4.1 Staging Lincoln as a Symbol for a Transnational Collective Identity in Edinburgh | 178 | ||
| 4.2 Staging the “Anti-Lincoln”: The Unveiling Ceremony in Manchester’s Platt Fields Park | 201 | ||
| 4.3 Staging Lincoln Memory in London: A Transnational Symbol of Comfort and Hope | 220 | ||
| 4.4 Lincoln Monuments in Britain – Transnational Sites of Memory | 239 | ||
| 5 Conclusion | 251 | ||
| Illustrations | 263 | ||
| Bibliography | 293 | ||
| Backcover | Backcover |
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