Detalls del llibre
This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and a growing consumerism. The tales thus express a complex self-reflection during a time when America's exploitation of its energy resources and its engagement in a Franco-British world-system was transforming the daily life of its citizens. The genre of the oriental observer, this study argues, offers intriguing glimpses of a nation becoming strange in the eyes of its own inhabitants.
- Autor/a Matthew H. Pangborn
- ISBN13 9781138358676
- ISBN10 1138358673
- Pàgines 271
- Any Edició 2018
- Fecha de publicación 17/09/2018
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Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807
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- Matthew H. Pangborn
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- ROUTLEDGE (2018)
- 9781138358676



