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American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-62: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures

Autor Brigitte Bailey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 aug 2019
Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation
American Travel Literature analyses 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. The Italian tour and its textual and visual expressions were forms through which predominantly white, northeastern elites dreamed their way into national identity and cultural authority. Its interdisciplinary methodology draws on antebellum visual culture, tourist practices and shifting class and gender identities to describe tourism and tourist writing as shapers of an elite (and then normative) national subjectivity. Bringing perspectives from art history and aesthetics, it historicises aesthetic practices, illuminating the depth of Americans' turn towards visual iconography in articulating social and national identities.
The book investigates tourists' triangulations of the categories of 'England', 'Italy' and 'America', discusses authors understood as national representatives - Irving, Cooper, Sedgwick, Kirkland, Fuller, Hawthorne and Stowe - in the context of other US and European writers and artists and looks at transatlantic tourist writing as a significant genre of the period that shaped the nation.
Key Features
  • The interdisciplinary approach pushes analysis of growing area of travel writing further
  • The trope of Italy as a woman reveals how gendered patterns of thought and response processed concepts of national identity thus recognising gender as a crucial mode of perception
  • Historicizes aesthetic practices by looking closely at a particular genre (tourist writing) and its social functions in the antebellum period
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ISBN-13: 9781474432849
ISBN-10: 1474432840
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures


Notă biografică

Brigitte Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the co-editor, with Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright, of Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (University of New Hampshire Press, 2013) and also a co-editor, with Beth L. Lueck and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, of Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (University of New Hampshire Press, 2012).

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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.