Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-century United StatesFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2000 - 281 стор. Combining biographical data with recent theoretical studies on travel writing, Between History and Romance unravels the conventions, voices, discourses, and gender issues embedded in some American travel texts on Spain produced in the early nineteenth century, and ascertains their cultural work in fostering a romantic representation of that country in the antebellum United States. |
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First Impressions Writing from and about Spain in the Colonial and Early National Periods | 46 |
Toward Romantic Spain Mordecai M Noah George Ticknor and the Allure of a Fallen Empire | 69 |
The Young American Abroad Alexander Slidell Mackenzie and the Call of Revolutionary Traveling | 98 |
Between Oriental Past and Ethnographic Present Washington Irving and the Romancing of Tattered Spaniards | 124 |
Fireside Travel Writing Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Sentimental Pilgrimage across Spain | 160 |
The American Couple Abroad Gender and Class Empowerment in the Spanish Travel Writings of Caleb and Caroline Cushing | 189 |
Conclusion | 226 |
Notes | 237 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Index | 277 |
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Сторінка 39 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Сторінка 18 - Granada, from time to time in the right proportions — they may have changed the names a little since I saw the papers — and serve up a bull-fight when other entertainments fail, it will be true to the letter, and give us as good an idea of the exact state or ruin of things in Spain as the most succinct and...
Сторінка 18 - ... sufficient accuracy. As for Spain, for instance, if you know how to throw in Don Carlos and the Infanta, and Don Pedro and Seville and Granada, from time to time in the right proportions, — they may have changed the names a little since I saw the...
Сторінка 58 - Travelling. This makes men wiser, but less happy. When men of sober age travel, they gather knowledge, which they may apply usefully for their country; but they are subject ever after to recollections mixed with regret; their affections are weakened by being extended over more objects; and they learn new habits which cannot be gratified when they return home.
Сторінка 39 - ... the truth of the human heart- -has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation.
Сторінка 187 - And as I write, the melancholy thought intrudes upon me — To what end is all this toil ? Of what avail these midnight vigils ? Dost thou covet fame ? Vain dreamer ! A few brief days — and what will the busy world know of thee ? Alas ! this little book is but a bubble on the stream ; and although it may catch the sunshine for a moment, yet it will soon float down the swift-rushing current, and be seen no more ! THE E.JD.
Сторінка 86 - I have seldom passed eight more interesting days ; for by the very novelty and strangeness of everything, — sleeping out every night but one, and then in the house of the chief of our band ; dining under trees at noon ; living on a footing of perfect equality and good-fellowship with people who are liable every day to be shot or hanged by the laws of their country ; indeed, leading for a week as much of a vagabond life as if I were an Arab or a Mameluke, — I came soon to have some of the same...
Сторінка 95 - Spain and the Spanish people amuse me more than anything I have met in Europe. There is more national character here^ more originality and poetry in the popular manners and feelings, more force without barbarism, and civilization without corruption, than I have found anywhere else. Would you believe it? — I speak not at all of the highest class, — what seems mere fiction and romance in other countries is matter of observation here, and, in all that relates to manners, Cervantes and Le Sage are...
Сторінка 253 - James Buzard, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature and the Ways to 'Culture' 1800-1918, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, pp.