Author: N.H. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Letters from Europe Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy and Switzerland in the Years 1825, '26 and '27 by N.H. Carter, in Two Volumes
Letters from Europe
Author: Nathaniel Hazeltine CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791499758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the gangrene of the author's mind in its most foul and diseased state." Such were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism. Cooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.
Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in 1825, '26, and '27
Author: Nathaniel Hazeltine CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The American Idea of England, 1776-1840
Author: Jennifer ClarkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317045211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens. Americans' attempts to negotiate the new Anglo-American relationship are revealed in letters, newspaper accounts, travel reports, essays, song lyrics, short stories and novels, which Clark suggests show them repositioning themselves in a transatlantic context newly defined by political revolution. Chapters examine political writing as a means for Americans to explore the Anglo-American relationship, the appropriation of John Bull by American writers, the challenge the War of 1812 posed to the reconstructed Anglo-American relationship, the Paper War between American and English authors that began around the time of the War of 1812, accounts by Americans lured to England as a place of poetry, story and history, and the work of American writers who dissected the Anglo-American relationship in their fiction. Carefully contextualised historically, Clark's persuasive study shows that any attempt to examine what it meant to be American in the New Nation, and immediately beyond, must be situated within the context of the Anglo-American relationship.
Catalogue of the Library and Collection of Autograph Letters, Papers, and Documents
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820
Author: Mark GuscinPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527564819
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In 1819, the Murray family set out on one of the last Grand Tours before railways forever changed the way people travelled. The eldest daughter of the Second Earl of Mansfield, Lady Frederica Murray (later Stanhope, as she married James Hamilton Stanhope, the youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Stanhope) kept a diary on the tour, which this book explores in detail. The diary has never been published (not even mentioned in any of the Grand Tour literature) and is a fascinating and essential look at the Murray/Mansfield family, and Europe at the time. Frederica was a deeply observant traveller and noted down numerous picturesque and historical details; she was also very open and sometimes even cutting in her opinions when she came across something or someone she did not like. Frederica’s diary shows a very mature 19-year-old with clear opinions on art, literature and the world around her. This book will therefore be interesting for scholars of travel, Grand Tours, and Regency England and its society, as well as anyone with an interest in travel and history.
Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
Author: Benjamin ColbertPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230355064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.
Ireland, England, Scotland, France
Author: Nathaniel Hazeltine CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description