| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The millstone of culture -- That stuff of life!: Taylor's ambition and achievement -- Dragoman! dual ethnocentrism and the egalitarian American traveler -- Can a life hide itself?: discretion and social identity in Taylor's fiction -- Cruising the monthly: the uncharted space of genteel erotics -- In endless toil, beatitude: work songs of the shabby genteel |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.
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| SUBJECT |
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678183 |
| ISBN |
9781611485721 |
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161148572X |
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9781611485721 |
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