Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807 Paperback / softback
by Matthew H. Pangborn
Part of the Perspectives on Early America series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2020
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- ISBN:9780367585839
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367585839
