American travel literature, gendered aesthetics and the Italian tour, 1824-1862 / Brigitte Bailey.

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Bailey, Brigitte [author.]

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TextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and culturesPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474432856
1474432859
9781474432863
1474432867

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Also known as: American travel literature, gendered aesthetics, and the Italian tour, 1824-62

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: American travel literature, gendered aesthetics, and the Italian tour, 1824-1862.; Print version:: American travel literature, gendered aesthetics and the Italian Tour, 1824-62.DDC classification:

810.9/324509034 23

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PS366.T73 B35 2018

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Contents:

Irving's landscapes: aesthetics, visual work, and the tourist's estate -- The protected witness: Cooper, Cole, and the male tourist's gaze -- Gazing women, unstable prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s -- Fuller and revolutionary Rome: Republican and urban imaginaries -- National spaces, Catholic icons, and Protestant bodies: instructing the Republican subject in Hawthorne and Stowe -- Conclusion: gender and genre.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-317) and index.

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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.

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