American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–62 / / Brigitte Bailey.
Examines tourists’ aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formationAmerican 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....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures : ECSALC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Irving’s Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist’s Estate
- Chapter 2 The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist’s Gaze
- Chapter 3 Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s
- Chapter 4 Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries
- Chapter 5 National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and Stow
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index