Title: Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
Abstract: Contents: Introduction: seeing America, Christine DeVine Part 1 Imagining a New World: A joy upon the precipice of death: John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California, Matthew Kaiser Utopian ideals in transatlanic context: Frances Wright's American vision, Caroline M. Kisiel The failure of Dickens's transatlantic dream in American Notes, John McBratney National adolescence and imaginative freedom: the traveling desires of Martineau and Bird, Kendall A. McClellan 'Lodestar to Isabella's wanderings': Bird's West and her British audience, Lindsay Mayo Fincher. Part 2 Politics and its Discontents: British travelers and the 'condition-of-America question': defining America in the 1830s, Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye 'Inexpressibly engaging': Fanny Trollope visits Charles Bird King's portraits of Indian chiefs, Christine DeVine Intertextuality in Dickens's American Notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America, Nathalie Vanfasse. Part 3 Heading South: the Slave States: 'Condemned of nature': British travelers on the landscape of the antebellum American South, M.B. Hackler 'My dearly-beloved Americans': Harriet Martineau's transatlantic abolitionism, Deborah Anna Logan 'Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation of it...acceptable': slavery as seen by British artists traveling in America, Susan P. Casteras Telling 'a still more dismal story': cultural role-playing and surrogate narration in Kemble's Georgian journal, Kristianne Kalata Vaccaro The closing of an American vision: alien national narrative in Henry James's The American Scene, Keiko Nitta Bibliography Index.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-06
Language: en
Type: book
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