Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-304) and index.
Contents:
The closing of an American vision: alien national narrative in Henry James's The American scene / Keiko Nitta. 13. Imaging a New World: 1. A joy on the precipice of death: John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California / Matthew Kaiser; 2. Utopian ideals in transatlantic context: Frances Wright's American vision / Caroline M. Kisiel; 3. The failure of Dickens's transatlantic dream in American notes / John McBratney; 4. National adolescence and imaginative freedom: the traveling desires of Martineau and Bird / Kendall A. McClellan; 5. "Lodestar to Istabella's wanderings': Bird's west and her British audience / Lindsay Mayo Fincer -- Part 2. Politics and its Discontents: 6. British travelers and the "condition-of-America question": defining America in the 1830s / Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye; 7. "Inexpressibly engaging": Fanny Trollope visits Charles Bird King's portraits of Indian chiefs / Christine DeVine; 8. Intertextuality in Charles Dickens's American notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America / Nathalie Vanfasse -- Part 3. Heading South: the Slave States: 9. "Condemned of nature": British travelers on the landscape of the Antebellum American South / M.B. Hackler; 10. "My dearly-beloved Americans": Harriet Martineau's transatlantic abolitionism / Deborah Anna Logan; 11. "Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation of it-- acceptable": slavery as seen by British artists traveling in America / Susan P. Casteras; 12. Telling "a still more dismal story": cultural role-playing and surrogate narration in Kemble's Georgian journal / Kristianne Kolata Vaccaro; 13. The closing of an American vision: alien national narrative in Henry James's The American scene / Keiko Nitta.
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