American Notes for General Circulation, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
American Notes for General Circulation, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780483264199

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Excerpt from American Notes for General Circulation, Vol. 1 of 2 I shall never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a state-room on board the Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons bur den per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book
Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book

Author: Jessica DeSpain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317087259

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Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.

Uncle Tom Mania
Uncle Tom Mania

Author: Sarah Meer

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780820327372

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Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.

Blackface Nation
Blackface Nation

Author: Brian Roberts

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 022645164X

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Introduction -- Carnival -- The Vulgar Republic -- Jim Crow's Genuine Audience -- Black Song -- Meet the Hutchinsons -- Love Crimes -- The Middle-Class Moment -- Culture Wars -- Black America -- Conclusion: Musical without End

Fashion Nation
Fashion Nation

Author: Sandra Tomc

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0472129015

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Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were compelled to offer visual manifestations of their allegedly true ancestral form. Showing that folk and ethnic nationalism played a central role in writing and culture, the book draws on a rare and colorful visual archive of national costumes, cartoons, theatrical spectacles, and immersive entertainments to show how the United States sprung to life as a visual space for transatlantic audiences. Fashion Nation not only includes chapters on major U.S. travel writers like Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper, but it also presents explorations of the vogue for folk and ethnic costume, the role of Indigenous dress in Wild West spectacles, and the nationalistic décor on display at late nineteenth-century world’s fairs and amusement parks. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Fashion Nation opens the door to a forgotten legacy of visual symbols that still inhabit ethnic and white nationalism in the United States today, showing how fantasies of glittery surfaces were designed to draw the eye away from a sordid history.