This work is the first book-length study of the fascinating and influential American writer, Bayard Taylor, in forty years. This critical reconsideration of Taylor's life and works demonstrates his importance for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature and history, gender and queer studies, and diplomatic history.
This work is the first book-length study of the fascinating and influential American writer, Bayard Taylor, in forty years. This critical reconsideration of Taylor's life and works demonstrates his importance for scholars of nineteenth-century American literature and history, gender and queer studies, and diplomatic history.
Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Millstone of Culture 1. "That Stuff of Life!": Taylor's Ambition and Achievement 2. Dragoman! Dual Ethnocentrism and the Egalitarian American Traveler 3. "Can a Life Hide Itself?": Discretion and Social Identity in Taylor's Fiction 4. Cruising the Monthly: The Uncharted Space of Genteel Erotics 5. "In Endless Toil, Beatitude": Work Songs of the Shabby Genteel Conclusion Works Cited Index
Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Millstone of Culture 1. "That Stuff of Life!": Taylor's Ambition and Achievement 2. Dragoman! Dual Ethnocentrism and the Egalitarian American Traveler 3. "Can a Life Hide Itself?": Discretion and Social Identity in Taylor's Fiction 4. Cruising the Monthly: The Uncharted Space of Genteel Erotics 5. "In Endless Toil, Beatitude": Work Songs of the Shabby Genteel Conclusion Works Cited Index
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