Commemorating Abraham Lincoln the Transnational Way

Lincoln Monuments in Great Britain

Liv Birte Buchmann

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1. Edition, 2020
311 Pages

ISBN: 978-3-8253-7940-7
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 306
Available: 25.08.2020

Keywords: Geschichte, Politik, kollektives Gedächtnis, Großbritannien, Transnationalismus, U.S.A., Inszenierung, 19. Jahrhundert, England, visual culture studies, transnational studies, 20. Jahrhundert, Gedächtniskultur, Memory Studies, Denkmäler, Lincoln, Abraham, Great Rapprochement, Enthüllungszeremonien

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.