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By creating an 'idea of America,' popular New World travel writing offered an understanding of America through British eyes, and a lens through which nineteenth-century Britain could view itself. Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World demonstrates the importance of nineteenth-century New World travel writing, examining narratives by some of the popular writers of the day, as well as paintings and drawings by travelling artists.
Christine DeVine is Mary E. Dichmann/BORSF Endowed Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
Introduction Seeing America; I: Imagining a New World; 1: A Joy on the Precipice of Death: John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California; 2: Utopian Ideals in Transatlantic Context: Frances Wright's American Vision; 3: The Failure of Dickens's Transatlantic Dream in American Notes; 4: National Adolescence and Imaginative Freedom: The Traveling Desires of Martineau and Bird; 5: "Lodestar to Isabella's Wanderings": Bird's West and her British Audience; II: Politics and its Discontents; 6: British Travelers and the "Condition-of-America Question": Defining America in the 1830s; 7: "Inexpressibly Engaging": Fanny Trollope Visits Charles Bird King's Portraits of Indian Chiefs; 8: Intertextuality in Charles Dickens's American Notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America; III: British Travelers and the "Condition-of-America Ques; 9: "Condemned of Nature": British Travelers on the Landscape of the Antebellum American South; 10: "My dearly-beloved Americans": Harriet Martineau's Transatlantic Abolitionism 1; 11: "Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation of it ... acceptable": Slavery as Seen by British Artists Traveling in America; 12: Telling "a still more dismal story": Cultural Role-Playing and Surrogate Narration in Kemble's Georgian Journal; 13: The Closing of an American Vision: Alien National Narrative in Henry James's The American Scene
