Yankee Yarns
Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Seiten
2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7744-4 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7744-4 (ISBN)
A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture
In this book, Stefanie Schfer provides the first study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.
In this book, Stefanie Schfer provides the first study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.
Stefanie Schafer is a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has been professor of American Studies at Erlangen-Nurnberg and Augsburg, Germany. She specialises in Transnational American Studies and Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and Popular Culture.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 B/W illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7744-5 / 1474477445 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7744-4 / 9781474477444 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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