Object

Group publication title:

Studia Filologiczne

Abstract:

This paper compares nineteenth-century travel accounts of two British women visiting the United States of America: Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans and Fanny Kemble’s Journal. Both writers focus on similar issues and are equally critical of the young republic; what they particularly dislike is its political and social equality, American manners, and what they see as the absence of literature and art. The paper argues that this strongly negative way of depicting America stems first from the literary convention of anti-Americanism, widespread in nineteenth-century Europe, and second from both authors’ wishes to elevate themselves while comparing their homeland with the “savage” New World.

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 349-359

ISSN:

2450-0380

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Date issued:

2022

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/8437

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Studia Filologiczne Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego

Has part:

t. 35

Type:

tekst