The colonizer abroad : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 / Christopher Mark McBride.
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TextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: 1 online resource (ix, 168 pages)Content type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780203494400
- 9781135877354
- 9781135877392
- 9781135877408
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Americans -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century
- Americans -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century
- Imperialism in literature
- Travelers in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Travel in literature
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
- 810.932 M478
- PS366.T73 M38 2004
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Melville's Typee and the Development of the American Colonial Imagination -- chapter 2 The Colonizing Voice in Cuba: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage -- chapter 3 The Kings of the Sandwich Islands: Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii and Postbellum American Imperialism -- chapter 4 Charles Warren Stoddard and the American Homocolonial Literary Excursion -- chapter 5 And Who Are These White Men?: Jack London's The House of Pride and American Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands.
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