National Stereotypes in Perspective : : Americans in France, Frenchmen in America / / edited by William L. Chew III.

• Superior document: Studia Imagologica ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: III, William L. Chew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Imagologica ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (443 pages)

Since the late 18th century, when they first entered into an alliance during the American Revolution, the French and Americans have had a long and sometimes stormy relationship based on a complex mix of mutual admiration, cultural criticism, and sometimes downright disgust for the "other."...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• William L. CHEW III: 'Literature, History, and the Social Sciences?' An Historical-Imagological Approach to Franco-American Stereotypes
• The Revolutionary Legacy of Two Sister Republics
• Doina P. HARSANYI: The Burdens of a Moderate Revolutionary Land: The Duc de Liancourt's Exile in America, 1794-1797
• Sarah J. PURCELL: Lafayette, Memory, and American Democracy
• Tracy N. LEAVELLE: The Osage in Europe: Romanticism, the Vanishing Indian, and French Civilization During the Restoration
• Nineteenth Century Societies in Perspective: Justice, Gender and Race
• Carlo COLATRELLA: The American Experiment in Criminal Justice and its European Observers
• Louis KERN: 'Slavery recedes but the Prejudice to Which it Has Given Birth is Immovable': Beaumont and Tocqueville Confront Racism and Slavery in Ante-Bellum America and Orléanist France
• Dominique A. LAURENT: The American Civil War in the French Press
• Jeannene PRZYBLYSKI: Visions of Race and Nation at the Paris Exposition, 1900: A French Context for the American Negro Exhibit
• Bess BEATTY: Outside the Narrow Circle: American Women in France in the Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century Societies in Perspective: Culture, Gender and Race
• Jennifer D. KEENE: French and American Racial Stereotypes during the First World War
• William KEYLOR: The Messiah and the Tiger: Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and the Cultural Stereotypes of America and France at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
• Barbara ZABEL: The Expatriates of the Machine-Age: Josephine Baker and Alexander Calder in Paris
• Seth ARMUS: George Bernamos, Emmanuel Mounier, and French Catholic Anti-Americanism
• Patrick G. GERSTER: The French Connection: Raoul de Roussy de Sales and the 'Problem' of Love in America
• Stephen HARP: Advocating Americanization? Michelin in Interwar France
• Isabelle GOURNAY: Romance, Prejudice and Levitt's Americanization of the Middle Class House in France
• Notes on the Contributors.