Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900
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Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900
Routledge, 2014
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"Bibliography with biographical notes": p. [265]-275
Includes index
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内容説明
The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another.
In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the 'American character' continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors.
Including vivid travellers' tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.
目次
Introduction
Chapter 1: Character, Class, Dress, Advertising
Chapter 2: The Built Environment: Cities and Boosterism, Accomodations and Transportation
Chapter 3: Culture: Aesthetics, Language, Music, Humor, Copyright and Journalism
Chapter 4: Personal Habits: Dining, Drinking, Tobacco Chewing, and Gun Use
Chapter 5: Domestic Relations: Women, Men, Children and Their Education
Chapter 6: Race, Immigration, and Religion
Chapter 7: War, Politics, and Patriotism
Chapter 8: The West: Landscape, Human Inhabitants, and Decline
Conclusion
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