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American travel literature, gendered aesthetics, and the Italian tour, 1824-62

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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. Its interdisciplinary methodology draws on antebellum visual culture, tourist practices, and shifting class and gender identities to describe tourism and tourist writing as shapers of an elite (and then normative) national subjectivity. Bringing perspectives from art history and aesthetics, the book historicises aesthetic practices by tracing nineteenth-century US representations of Italy. It draws connections between tourist writing and visual culture as means of understanding the depth of Americans' turn towards visual iconography in articulating social and national identities.

Title American travel literature, gendered aesthetics, and the Italian tour, 1824-62 / Brigitte Bailey. [electronic resource]
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Irving’s Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist’s Estate -- Chapter 2 The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist’s Gaze -- Chapter 3 Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s -- Chapter 4 Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries -- Chapter 5 National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and Stow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures
Extent 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010704477105171
MARC RECORDS
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