Yankee Yarns : Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures)

Schäfer, Stefanie

Edinburgh University Press（2023/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 324 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474477451
• DDC分類 810.935291309034

Full Description

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Yankee Yarns provides the first systematic study of the Yankee's formation in 19th century US culture
Critiques US national historiographies by revealing an indulgence in storytelling, fraudulence, and self-irony at the heart of the US national character
Argues that US national culture is originally transnational and transatlantic

In this book, Stefanie Sch fer provides the first study of the Yankee's many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee's ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.

Contents

Introduction
1. John Bull and Brother Jonathan, a Transatlantic Affair
2. Theater of/for the Nation: The Stage Yankee as Metatheatric Sign
3. The Yankee Peddler Conjures an American Marketplace
4. New England's "Homespun Yankee" in the Cultural and Literary Imagination
5. Yankee Politics: A Coda

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