Passage to America : celebrated European visitors in search of the American adventure /
"This book compares the impressions of a group discerning and prominent Europeans from the cultural sphere ... Their reactions to the New World are as revealing of the European and American worlds as they are colorful and varied, providing a unique insight into the experiences of nineteenth-cen...
| Основен автор: | Deak, Gloria-Gilda, 1930- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York, NY :
I.B. Tauris,
2013.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=766379 |
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Print version::
Passage to America |
Съдържание:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface Passage to America; Chapter 1 The New World Sojourn of Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville; Chapter 2 Frances Wright Brings Reform to America; Chapter 3 The American Peregrinations of Captain Basil Hall; Chapter 4 The New World Enterprise of Frances Trollope; Chapter 5 The Political Mission of Thomas Hamilton; Chapter 6 The American Debut of Fanny Kemble; Chapter 7 The American Odyssey of Harriet Martineau; Chapter 8 The Daring Adventures of Charles Augustus Murray.
- Chapter 9 The Clairvoyance of Thomas Colley GrattanChapter 10 The First Visit of Charles Dickens to the New World; Chapter 11 William Makepeace Thackeray Lectures in America; Chapter 12 Edward Dicey, Reporter Extraordinaire; Chapter 13 Oscar Wilde Brings the New Aesthetics to America; Chapter 14 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and the Birth of Carnegie Hall; Chapter 15 Henry James Revisits the New World; Notes.