Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World

Christine DeVine is Mary E. Dichmann/BORSF Endowed Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Introduction Seeing America; I: Imagining a New World; 1: A Joy on the Precipice of Death: John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California; 2: Utopian Ideals in Transatlantic Context: Frances Wright's American Vision; 3: The Failure of Dickens's Transatlantic Dream in American Notes; 4: National Adolescence and Imaginative Freedom: The Traveling Desires of Martineau and Bird; 5: “Lodestar to Isabella's Wanderings”: Bird's West and her British Audience; II: Politics and its Discontents; 6: British Travelers and the “Condition-of-America Question”: Defining America in the 1830s; 7: “Inexpressibly Engaging”: Fanny Trollope Visits Charles Bird King's Portraits of Indian Chiefs; 8: Intertextuality in Charles Dickens's American Notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America; III: British Travelers and the “Condition-of-America Ques; 9: “Condemned of Nature”: British Travelers on the Landscape of the Antebellum American South; 10: “My dearly-beloved Americans”: Harriet Martineau's Transatlantic Abolitionism 1; 11: “Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation of it … acceptable”: Slavery as Seen by British Artists Traveling in America; 12: Telling “a still more dismal story”: Cultural Role-Playing and Surrogate Narration in Kemble's Georgian Journal; 13: The Closing of an American Vision: Alien National Narrative in Henry James's The American Scene