Framing the nation, claiming the hemisphere transnational imagination in early American travel writring (1770-1830).

Travel reports have shaped the emergence of early U.S. culture and its "geographical imagination" (David Harvey). Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere examines the trans-national imagination in travel reports by American authors written between 1770 and 1830. Its range is from John...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY PRES, 2022.
Edición:1ST ED.
Colección:Stockholm English Studies.
Temas:
1700-1899
Travel writing > United States > History > 18th century.
Travel writing > United States > History > 19th century.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
Travel.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
United States > Description and travel > 18th century.
United States > Description and travel > 19th century.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction: Frames and Claims 1
  • 1.1. Travel Writing 1770 to 1830 2
  • 1.2. Nation-building and Literary Nationalism 13
  • 1.3. Fluid Boundaries: The Categories of Domestic and Abroad 19
  • 1.4. Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism 23
  • II. Early American Travel Writing: History and Concepts 31
  • 2.1. Travel Writing as Genre and Discourse 31
  • 2.2. The Genre in History: From Colonial to Creole Voice 36
  • 2.3. The National Imagination: New Boundaries, New Authorship 49
  • 2.4. Early American Travel Writing: Critical Approaches 58
  • III. Creolizing America 75
  • 3.1. Natural History and the Dispute of the New World 75
  • 3.2. Jonathan Carver's Transatlantic Affiliations 85
  • 3.3. John Bartram and William Bartram: Toward Domestic Imagination 95
  • IV. Framing the Expanding Nation 131
  • 4.1. Thomas Jefferson: Imperial Cosmopolitanism 132
  • 4.2. John Filson: The National Narrative 142
  • 4.3. Gilbert Imlay: Western Territory and Transatlantic Comparison 153
  • 4.4. Anne Newport Royall: Domesticated Vistas 159
  • V. Fundamental Entanglements: Africa and the New Nation 167
  • 5.1. America and Circum-Atlantic Mobility 167
  • 5.2. Olaudah Equiano and Transatlantic Imagination 173
  • 5.3. Literary Nationalism and Proto-Imperialism: Royall Tyler, Joseph Hawkins, and Benjamin Stout 185
  • VI. The Hemispheric Frame: The Early Nineteenth-Century Traveler in Latin America 197
  • 6.1. The Idea of the Western Hemisphere 198
  • 6.2. Zebulon Pike: Military Exploration 207
  • 6.3. Henry Ker: The Hemisphere as Space of Captivity and Liberation 209
  • 6.4. Henry Marie Brackenridge: Diplomatic Travel Writing 222
  • 6.5. William Duane: Democracy, Trade, and Race 231
  • VII. Conclusion: Continuities of Early Frames and Claims 241
  • 7.1. Foundations: Nationalism, Expansionism, and Imperialism in the Making 242
  • 7.2. Reverberations 246
  • Bibliography 257
  • Index (names and subjects) 297.

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