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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-101032129328
ISBN-139781032129327
eBay Product ID (ePID)23057261409
Product Key Features
Number of Pages150 Pages
Publication NameNineteenth-Century Visions of Race : British Travel Writing about America
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorJustyna FruzińSka
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2021-036339
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction The visitors Transatlantic relations in the early 19th century The discourse of travel writing Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Race The beginnings of racial science Attitudes towards blacks and Native Americans Chapter Two: Touring the Land of the Unfree The South, the North, and abolitionism Objective observers Essentialist views of race Nineteenth-century racial hierarchies Chapter Three: Children of the Forest, Noble and Ignoble Savages: Encounters with Native Americans Sympathy for the oppressed Savages noble and ignoble: the double image Doomed to extinction Extremes of contempt Chapter Four: Gazing at Racialized Bodies Seeking esthetic pleasure The ugly, the grotesque, the animal Performing race Speaking for itself? Conclusion Index
SynopsisNineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.The travelers' discussions of slavery and of the situation of Native Americans constituted an inherent part of their interest in the country's democratic system, but it also reflected numerous additional problems: 19th-century conceptions of race, the writers' own political agendas, as well as their like or dislike of America in general, which impacted how they assessed the treatment of the subaltern groups by the young republic. While all British travelers were critical of American slavery and most of them expressed sympathy for Native Americans, their attitude towards non-whites was shaped by prejudices characteristic of the age. The book brings together descriptions of blacks and Native Americans, showing their similarities stemming from 19th-century views on race as well as their differences; it also focuses on the depiction of race in travel writing as part of Anglo-American relations of the period., Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.
LC Classification NumberPR778.T72F78 2022
