Yankee Yarns : : Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture / / Stefanie Schäfer.
A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and cultureYankee Yarns provides the first systematic study of the Yankee’s formation in 19th century US cultureCritiques US national historiographies by revealing an indulgence in storytelling, fraud...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| 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 (324 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan: A Transatlantic Affair
- Chapter 2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign
- Chapter 3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace
- Chapter 4. New England’s “Homespun Yankee” in the Cultural and Literary Imagination
- Chapter 5. Yankee Politics: A Coda
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates