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A Land Without Castles

The Changing Image of America in Europe, 1780-1830
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 2001

Summary

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.



Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2001
Copyright Year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0219-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5694-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
235
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Table of Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Introduction No access
  1. Chapter 1. Setting the Stage No access Pages 1 - 12
  2. Chapter 2. Early Theories of America in Europe No access Pages 13 - 34
  3. Chapter 3. Thomas Jefferson and French Society: Promoting America from Abroad No access Pages 35 - 68
  4. Chapter 4. Symbols of America in Europe No access Pages 69 - 100
  5. Chapter 5. The Voyage No access Pages 101 - 128
  6. Chapter 6. The Travel Journal in Early America No access Pages 129 - 156
  7. Chapter 7. Space and Land: The Aesthetic Dimension of America No access Pages 157 - 184
  8. Chapter 8. The Issue of Slavery in America No access Pages 185 - 214
  9. Conclusion No access Pages 215 - 218
  10. Bibliography No access Pages 219 - 228
  11. Index No access Pages 229 - 235

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