{"product_id":"american-travel-literature-gendered-aesthetics-brigitte-bailey-9781474432849","title":"American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics and the Italian Tour, 1824-62","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Travel Literature\u003c\/em\u003e analyses tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States. The Italian tour and its textual and visual expressions were forms through which predominantly white, northeastern elites dreamed their way into national identity and cultural authority. Its interdisciplinary methodology draws on antebellum visual culture, tourist practices and shifting class and gender identities to describe tourism and tourist writing as shapers of an elite (and then normative) national subjectivity. Bringing perspectives from art history and aesthetics, it historicises aesthetic practices, illuminating the depth of Americans' turn towards visual iconography in articulating social and national identities. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book investigates tourists' triangulations of the categories of 'England', 'Italy' and 'America', discusses authors understood as national representatives - Irving, Cooper, Sedgwick, Kirkland, Fuller, Hawthorne and Stowe - in the context of other US and European writers and artists and looks at transatlantic tourist writing as a significant genre of the period that shaped the nation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe interdisciplinary approach pushes analysis of growing area of travel writing further\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe trope of Italy as a woman reveals how gendered patterns of thought and response processed concepts of national identity thus recognising gender as a crucial mode of perception\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHistoricizes aesthetic practices by looking closely at a particular genre (tourist writing) and its social functions in the antebellum period\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brigitte Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474432840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474432849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Brigitte Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756719108351,"sku":"9781474432849","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c781cff5-bb70-44be-ba46-aded99206b34.jpg?v=1706593681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-travel-literature-gendered-aesthetics-brigitte-bailey-9781474432849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}