Screen LibraryPassage to America : celebrated European visitors in search of the American adventure /
America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture and society, the American experience was...
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I.B. Tauris,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture and society, the American experience was vastly different - almost unrecognizable so - from Old World Europe. Europeans were astounded that America could survive without a monarch, a standing army and the hierarchical society which still dominated Europe. Some travellers, such as the actress Fanny Kemble, were truly convinced America wou |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-270) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781780760759 : 1780760752 |
| Index Number: | E169 |
| CLC: | K971.29 |
| Call Number: | K971.29/D278 |
| Contents: | 1. The new world sojourn of Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville -- 2. Frances Wright brings reform to America -- 3. The American pereginations of Captain Bail Hall -- 4. The new world enterprise of Frances Trollope -- 5. The political mission of Thomas Hamilton -- 6. The American debut of Fanny Kemble -- 7. The American odyssey of Harriet Martineau -- 8. The daring adventures of Charles Augustus Murray -- 9. The clairvoyance of Thomas Colley Grattan -- 10. The first visit of Charles Dickens to the new world -- 11. William Makepeace Thackeray lectures in America -- 12. Edward Dicey, reporter |