American travel literature, gendered aesthetics, and the Italian tour, 1824-62 / Brigitte Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Brigitte, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.

Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, American--19th century--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

Italy--Description and travel.

Italy.

Italy--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

ISBN:

1-4744-3286-7

1-4744-3285-9

OCLC:

1306539972