Transatlantic Exchanges and the Shifting “Geography of the Word”: Two New Letters from Emerson to Carlyle

Tim Sommer is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge. His monographCarlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority: Literature, Print, Performanceis forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.