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Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature - Couverture souple

Mulvey, Christopher

 
9780521055611: Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 052105561X ISBN 13 : 9780521055611
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Christopher Mulvey has entered the world of travellers writing about their journeys abroad – Americans in their travels through England, and the English in their forays to the United States – during the eighty years following the end of the 1812–15 War. The writings of travellers from one country about the other dispel the myth that good manners were a universal value, and any variations were to be explained in terms of moral or political corruptions of one or the other nation. The impact of different yet somehow familiar cultures is highlighted in chapters which explore the contemporary issues of the nineteenth-century American woman, slavery, and the English poor. Mulvey also examines the American traveller's view of such English institutions as those of the gentleman, the aristocracy, and the servant and, in comparison, the English opinion of American merchant society, planter society and the American West.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Christopher Mulvey has entered the world of travellers writing about their journeys abroad – Americans in their travels through England, and the English in their forays to the United States – during the eighty years following the end of the 1812–15 War. The writings of travellers from one country about the other dispel the myth that good manners were a universal value, and any variations were to be explained in terms of moral or political corruptions of one or the other nation. The impact of different yet somehow familiar cultures is highlighted in chapters which explore the contemporary issues of the nineteenth-century American woman, slavery, and the English poor. Mulvey also examines the American traveller's view of such English institutions as those of the gentleman, the aristocracy, and the servant and, in comparison, the English opinion of American merchant society, planter society and the American West.

Revue de presse

"Mulvey's own insights are genuinely illuminating." Janis P. Stout, American Literature

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052105561X
ISBN 13 
9780521055611
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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