American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–1862

Brigitte Bailey

American Travel Literature analyses US tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United States.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Illustrations
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-x

Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - Irving's Landscapes: Aesthetics, Visual Work, and the Tourist's Estate
pp 15-65

2 - The Protected Witness: Cooper, Cole, and the Male Tourist's Gaze
pp 66-114

3 - Gazing Women, Unstable Prospects: Sedgwick and Kirkland in the 1840s
pp 115-156

4 - Fuller and Revolutionary Rome: Republican and Urban Imaginaries
pp 157-192

5 - National Spaces, Catholic Icons, and Protestant Bodies: Instructing the Republican Subject in Hawthorne and Stowe
pp 193-243

Conclusion: Gender and Genre
pp 244-249

Notes
pp 250-291

Bibliography
pp 292-317

Index
pp 318-326

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