Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere : : Transnational Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770-1830) / / Markus Heide.

• Superior document: Stockholm English Studies
• VerfasserIn: Heide, Markus,
• Place / Publishing House: Stockholm, Sweden : : Stockholm University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Stockholm English Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 pages).

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.