A Land without Castles
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A Land without Castles

The Changing Image of America in Europe, 1780-1830

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eBook - ePub

A Land without Castles

The Changing Image of America in Europe, 1780-1830

About this book

Thomas K. Murphy explores the shifting history of European attitudes toward America, utilizing British and French writing from the late eighteenth through the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Murphy studies a rich collage of literary, philosophical, and political writing by Europeans during this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes, the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and of England during this same period, and the genre of the travel journal. Murphy has created an interesting historiography that augments our understanding of American history, but also illuminates the role that these imaginative texts about the New World played in the formation of significant social and political developments in modern European history.

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Information

Year
2001
eBook ISBN
9780739156940
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Setting the Stage
  10. 2 Early Theories of America in Europe
  11. 3 Thomas Jefferson and French Society: Promoting America from Abroad
  12. 4 Symbols of America in Europe
  13. 5 The Voyage
  14. 6 The Travel Journal in Early America
  15. 7 Space and Land: The Aesthetic Dimension of America
  16. 8 The Issue of Slavery in America
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index