American travel literature, gendered aesthetics and the Italian tour, 1824-1862 /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bailey, Brigitte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
Temas:
1800-1899
Travelers' writings, American > 19th century > History and criticism.
Écrits de voyageurs américains > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Literature.
Travel.
Travelers' writings, American.
Italy > Description and travel.
Italy > In literature.
Italie > Descriptions et voyages.
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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