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Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World (Hardcover, New edition)
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Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World (Hardcover, New edition)
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With cheaper publishing costs and the explosion of periodical
publishing, the influence of New World travel narratives was
greater during the nineteenth century than ever before, as they
offered an understanding not only of America through British eyes,
but also a lens though which nineteenth-century Britain could view
itself. Despite the differences in purpose and method, the writers
and artists discussed in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in
the New World-from Fanny Wright arriving in America in 1818 to the
return of Henry James in 1904, and including Charles Dickens,
Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau,
and Robert Louis Stevenson among others, as well as artists such as
Eyre Crowe-all contributed to the continued building of America as
a construct for audiences at home. These travelers' stories and
images thus presented an idea of America over which Britons could
crow about their own supposed sophistication, and a democratic
model through which to posit their own future, all of which
suggests the importance of transatlantic travel writing and the
'idea of America' to nineteenth-century Britain.
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