Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Devine, Christine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By creating an 'idea of America,' popular New World travel writing offered an understanding of America through British eyes, and a lens through which nineteenth-century Britain could view itself. Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World demonstrates the importance of nineteenth-century New World travel writing, examining narratives by some of the popular writers of the day, as well as paintings and drawings by travelling artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317087304
• Artikelnr.: 45092870

Autorenporträt

Christine DeVine is Mary E. Dichmann/BORSF Endowed Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Seeing America; I: Imagining a New World; 1: A Joy on the
Precipice of Death: John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California; 2:
Utopian Ideals in Transatlantic Context: Frances Wright's American Vision;
3: The Failure of Dickens's Transatlantic Dream in American Notes; 4:
National Adolescence and Imaginative Freedom: The Traveling Desires of
Martineau and Bird; 5: "Lodestar to Isabella's Wanderings": Bird's West and
her British Audience; II: Politics and its Discontents; 6: British
Travelers and the "Condition-of-America Question": Defining America in the
1830s; 7: "Inexpressibly Engaging": Fanny Trollope Visits Charles Bird
King's Portraits of Indian Chiefs; 8: Intertextuality in Charles Dickens's
American Notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America; III: British
Travelers and the "Condition-of-America Ques; 9: "Condemned of Nature":
British Travelers on the Landscape of the Antebellum American South; 10:
"My dearly-beloved Americans": Harriet Martineau's Transatlantic
Abolitionism 1; 11: "Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation
of it ... acceptable": Slavery as Seen by British Artists Traveling in
America; 12: Telling "a still more dismal story": Cultural Role-Playing and
Surrogate Narration in Kemble's Georgian Journal; 13: The Closing of an
American Vision: Alien National Narrative in Henry James's The American
Scene