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

Redaktion: Devine, Christine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With cheaper publishing costs and the explosion of periodical publishing, the influence of New World travel narratives was greater during the nineteenth century than ever before, as they offered an understanding not only of America through British eyes, but also a lens though which nineteenth-century Britain could view itself. Despite the differences in purpose and method, the writers and artists discussed in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World-from Fanny Wright arriving in America in 1818 to the return of Henry James in 1904, and including Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau, and Robert Louis Stevenson among others, as well as artists such as Eyre Crowe-all contributed to the continued building of America as a construct for audiences at home. These travelers' stories and images thus presented an idea of America over which Britons could crow about their own supposed sophistication, and a democratic model through which to posit their own future, all of which suggests the importance of transatlantic travel writing and the 'idea of America' to nineteenth-century Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• 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