ISBN:
9781433123313
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy volume 15
Parallel Title:
Print version Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny : John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya
DDC:
305.897/42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841, 1843) the sources of American perceptions of Central America and contributes directly to current redefinitions of American nationalism, Manifest Destiny, and hemispheric imperialism. The study challenges modern readers to examine critically the cultural stereotypes that the nineteenth century embraced and that often formed the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue. In the Footsteps of John Lloyd Stephens; Chapter One: Personal Identity, National Mythology: Writing the Self as an American Half-Dollar; Reading Reviews, Reading Cultural Values; Chapter Two: Appropriating the Maya; Chapter Three: Reading is Believing; Chapter Four: Seeing the Maya in the American Parlor; Chapter Five: Reading Catherwood's Views of Ancient Monuments (1844); Epilogue. The Footsteps Form a Circle; Illustrations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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