Domestic Manners of the Americans
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1997
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-043561-0 (ISBN)
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-043561-0 (ISBN)
Fanny Trollope set sail for America with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, taking with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts, and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. This book describes her misfortunes, and is a satirical account of a nation.
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to England Fanny turned her misfortunes into a remarkable book. A masterpiece of nineteenth-century travel-writing, Domestic Manners of the Americans is a vivid and hugely witty satirical account of a nation and was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.
PAMELA NEVILLE-SINGTON lives in West London. She is a member of the Trollope Society, and Viking publish her biography, Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Selected Further Reading
Note on the Text
DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS
Appendix A: Unpublished Preface from the Rough Draft of Domestic Manners of the Americans
Appendix B: Preface to the Fifth Edition of Domestic Manners of the Americans (1839)
Appendix C: 'A Fragment' Appended to the Fifth Edition
Notes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.5.1997 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Pamela Neville-Sington |
| Mitarbeit |
Anmerkungen: Pamela Neville-Sington |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 303 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-14-043561-1 / 0140435611 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-043561-0 / 9780140435610 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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