1st Edition
Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race British Travel Writing about America
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The visitors
Transatlantic relations in the early 19th century
The discourse of travel writing
Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Race
The beginnings of racial science
Attitudes towards blacks and Native Americans
Chapter Two: Touring the Land of the Unfree
The South, the North, and abolitionism
Objective observers
Essentialist views of race
Nineteenth-century racial hierarchies
Chapter Three: Children of the Forest, Noble and Ignoble Savages: Encounters with Native Americans
Sympathy for the oppressed
Savages noble and ignoble: the double image
Doomed to extinction
Extremes of contempt
Chapter Four: Gazing at Racialized Bodies
Seeking esthetic pleasure
The ugly, the grotesque, the animal
Performing race
Speaking for itself?
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Justyna Fruzińska holds an MA in American Literature and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor and teaches American literature, culture, and history. Her publications include Emerson Goes to the Movies: Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films (2014), as well as numerous academic articles on American popular culture, travel writing, Transcendentalism, and Polish poetry.
