Yankee yarns : storytelling and the invention of the national body in nineteenth-century American culture / Stefanie Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Stefanie, Dr., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Americans in literature.

Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.

Popular culture.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 304 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: An Ambiguous National Character

The Yankee and Transatlantic Nationalism: Aims and Scope of this Study

Whiteness, Manhood, and the Body Politic

Literary Fraudulence, Activist Readership, and the Economy of Storytelling

Chapters and Coda

1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan: A Transatlantic Affair

From Allegory to Character: John Bull in Early British National Iconography

Transatlantic Kinship in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Print Culture: Between National Literature and Imperial Fantasy

The National Body as Image and Text: Thomas Nast's Uncle Sam and Humor Magazines

2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign

Yankee Theater and Drama Scholarship

Tales of Country and City: From Jonathan to Uncle Nat

The Stage Yankee at Large: International Projections and Yankee Ambiguity

3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace

Monster, Wizard, Founding Father: The Yankee Peddler in Cultural and Economic Historiography

The Secrets of the Yankee Peddler in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Yankee Clocks and Wooden Nutmegs: "Yankee Notions" and the Making of a National Marketplace

4. New England's "Homespun Yankee" in the Cultural and Literary Imagination

Fantasies of New England in Regional Historiography

The Yankee Schoolmaster as American Educator

"The Season of Youth for Nations and Individuals": New England Villages and Yankee Character

John Neal's Down-Easters: Whittling, Storytelling Yankees

Yankee Homespun

5. Yankee Politics: A Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1474477445

9781474477444

OCLC:

1182851553