Yankee yarns storytelling and the invention of the national body in nineteenth-century American culture /

Yankee yarns [electronic resource] : storytelling and the invention of the national body in nineteenth-century American culture / Stefanie Schäfer.

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Schäfer, Stefanie, Dr
Other Authors: Schäfer, Stefanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Americans in literature.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature.
Popular culture.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • An Ambiguous National Character
  • The Yankee and Transatlantic Nationalism: Aims and Scope of this Study
  • Whiteness, Manhood, and the Body Politic
  • Literary Fraudulence, Activist Readership, and the Economy of Storytelling
  • Chapters and Coda
  • 1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan: A Transatlantic Affair
  • From Allegory to Character: John Bull in Early British National Iconography
  • Transatlantic Kinship in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Print Culture: Between National Literature and Imperial Fantasy
  • The National Body as Image and Text: Thomas Nast's Uncle Sam and Humor Magazines
  • 2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign
  • Yankee Theater and Drama Scholarship
  • Tales of Country and City: From Jonathan to Uncle Nat
  • The Stage Yankee at Large: International Projections and Yankee Ambiguity
  • 3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace
  • Monster, Wizard, Founding Father: The Yankee Peddler in Cultural and Economic Historiography
  • The Secrets of the Yankee Peddler in Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Yankee Clocks and Wooden Nutmegs: "Yankee Notions" and the Making of a National Marketplace
  • 4. New England's "Homespun Yankee" in the Cultural and Literary Imagination
  • Fantasies of New England in Regional Historiography
  • The Yankee Schoolmaster as American Educator
  • "The Season of Youth for Nations and Individuals": New England Villages and Yankee Character
  • John Neal's Down-Easters: Whittling, Storytelling Yankees
  • Yankee Homespun
  • 5. Yankee Politics: A Coda.

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