| Description |
1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
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| Contents |
Irving's landscapes: aesthetics, visual work, and the tourist's estate -- The protected witness: Cooper, Cole, and the male tourist's gaze -- Gazing women, unstable prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s -- Fuller and revolutionary Rome: Republican and urban imaginaries -- National spaces, Catholic icons, and Protestant bodies: instructing the Republican subject in Hawthorne and Stowe -- Conclusion: gender and genre |
| Summary |
American Travel Literature analyses US tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-317) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 16, 2018) |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, American -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Literature
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Travel
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Travelers' writings, American
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068907
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Italy -- In literature
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| Subject |
Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474432856 |
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1474432859 |
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9781474432863 |
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1474432867 |
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