Domestic Manners of the Americans
Domestic Manners of the Americans

Author: Frances Trollope

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199676879

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Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her criticisms of American manners, from vulgarity to the treatment of slaves. One of the most influential travel books of the century, it also speaks to political debates on equality in England.

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Domestic Manners of the Americans

Author: Frances Milton Trollope

Publisher: London : Whittaker, Treacher ; New York : reprinted for the booksellers

Published: 1832

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more - often critically but always with considerable insight and literary flair.

Fanny: A Fiction
Fanny: A Fiction

Author: Edmund White

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2004-10-26

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780060004859

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In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright convinced her to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life. Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Domestic Manners of the Americans

Author: Frances Trollope

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2015-02-02

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1460404645

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Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu’s satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Manners recounts Trollope’s three years as an Englishwoman living in America. Trollope makes the civility of an entire nation the subject of her keen scrutiny, a strategy that would earn her, in the words of the critic Michael Sadleir, “more anger and applause than almost any writer of her day.” Auguste Hervieu’s twenty-four original illustrations, placed and scaled as in the first edition, are included in this Broadview Edition, inviting readers to experience the original relationship of image and text.

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Domestic Manners of the Americans

Author: Frances Milton Trollope

Publisher: Random House (UK)

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more - often critically but always with considerable insight and literary flair.

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

Author: Robert McCrum

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903385838

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Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

EcoGothic
EcoGothic

Author: Andrew Smith

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1526102927

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This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.

Fanny Trollope
Fanny Trollope

Author: Pamela Neville-Sington

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780140243338

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A biography of Fanny Trollope, the wife of Anthony Trollope and author of the Domestic Manners of the Americans.