Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-century Journeys Toward French and American Selfhood - Couverture souple

Kramer, Lloyd S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469682397 ISBN 13 : 9781469682396

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024

Synopsis

Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Delving into the experiences of renowned figures like Flora Tristan and Margaret Fuller alongside lesser-known postrevolutionary travelers, this book illuminates how cross-cultural encounters pushed writers to redefine their views of nationality, language, race, slavery, gender, religion, science, and political ideologies.

Lloyd Kramer deftly demonstrates how unsettling journeys challenged cultural preconceptions and fostered introspective writings that transcended geographical boundaries. By interweaving the perspectives of women and men whose travels led them far beyond their youthful social origins, Kramer unveils a rich tapestry of evolving selfhood, ambition, and political consciousness across the Atlantic world. Each traveler's experience was unique, but long journeys connected all these nineteenth-century writers with others who had traveled before; and trips into unknown, distant cultures also carried travelers toward previously unknown places within themselves.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lloyd S. Kramer is professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469682397
• ISBN 13: 9781469682396
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible