Domestic Manners of the Americans (eBook)

Frances Trollope (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
416 Seiten
Restless Books (Verlag)
978-1-63206-004-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a utopia of "e;justice and liberty for all,"e; she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character. Funny and fearless, Trollope's biting critique became an international sensation. Yet, as Mark Twain remarked, "e;She was merely telling the truth and this indignant nation knew it."e;Today, Domestic Manners of the Americans remains a prophetic diagnosis of America and a masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel writing. Now published as an eBook with an introduction by acclaimed travel author Sara Wheeler, this classic work offers modern American readers a fascinating reintroduction to themselves.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2014
• Einführung: Sara Wheeler
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Architecture • biting critique • candid travelogue • colonial voyage • comments on society • dress • Food • Humor • international sensation • Landscape • Manners • negative reaction to criticism • nineteenth century US • personal freedom • Politics • Realism • social portraiture • Speech • Traditions • women's travel writing • young republic
• ISBN-10: 1-63206-004-3 / 1632060043
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-004-4 / 9781632060044