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Author | : Kenneth D. Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1135098425 |
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The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another. In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the ‘American character’ continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors. Including vivid travellers’ tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.
Author | : Kenneth D. Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1135098352 |
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The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another. In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the ‘American character’ continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors. Including vivid travellers’ tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2017-06-13T17:04:28Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Sartor Resartus was a strange and new book when it was first published in 1833, and in many ways it remains a strange and new book today. The bulk of the novel takes the form of the a commentary on the life and works of the fictional Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a sort of renaissance-man German philosopher who develops a “Philosophy of Clothes.” The commentary is composed by a fictional English commentator, known only as the “Editor”; the Editor claims to have translated many of Teufelsdröckh’s ideas and quotes from German. As the commentary progresses, the Editor receives a bag of paper scraps on which are written various autobiographical fragments from Teufelsdröckh’s life. The Editor’s attempts to organize and interpret these scraps forms the second part of the novel. The work is multi-faceted: sometimes a parody, sometimes a comedy, sometimes a satire, and sometimes seriously philosophical. Some critics consider it an early existentialist text. At the very least its unique structure and use of meta-narrative is hugely influential to modern literature; Borges was said to have memorized entire pages, and modern texts like Nabokov’s Pale Fire borrow liberally from the concept of a meta-narrative organized on scraps of paper. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Edward Barrett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Shoemakers |
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Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
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Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1831 |
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Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, takes the form of a long review by a man known only as the 'Editor', of the fictional German book Clothes, Their Origin and Influence by the fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. He struggles to understand and explain the book, even though he claims to know the author. Getting more and more frustrated at the book he's supposed to be reviewing, he then receives a large load of paper scraps which are fragments of an autobiography of Teufelsdröckh.