James Buzard
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122760
- eISBN:
- 9780191671531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122760.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines the views and thoughts of American writer Henry James about American travellers and tourists in Europe. It suggests that James observed that many of the Americans he saw in ...
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This chapter examines the views and thoughts of American writer Henry James about American travellers and tourists in Europe. It suggests that James observed that many of the Americans he saw in Europe in the late 1860s and 1870s were lacking all preparation for culture. In his novel The American, James evinced a fundamental ambivalence in his representations of the tourist, an unwillingness to condemn or satirize the ‘new men’ and new women from the U.S. who were beginning to make their way to the Old World. He also thought that the civil war marked a new era for the American mind and in American travel to Europe.Less
This chapter examines the views and thoughts of American writer Henry James about American travellers and tourists in Europe. It suggests that James observed that many of the Americans he saw in Europe in the late 1860s and 1870s were lacking all preparation for culture. In his novel The American, James evinced a fundamental ambivalence in his representations of the tourist, an unwillingness to condemn or satirize the ‘new men’ and new women from the U.S. who were beginning to make their way to the Old World. He also thought that the civil war marked a new era for the American mind and in American travel to Europe.
David Seed
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311802.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses how American travellers during the Cold War became increasingly conscious of geopolitical tensions exacerbated by the fact that they were often under surveillance by the FBI or ...
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This chapter discusses how American travellers during the Cold War became increasingly conscious of geopolitical tensions exacerbated by the fact that they were often under surveillance by the FBI or other agencies. Travel in this period was kept under government control through the difficulty or ease of obtaining a passport, but its nature was further politicized by the perception that countries belonged in either the Eastern or the Western bloc. Cold War travel narratives tend to demonstrate an extreme self-consciousness so severe that, whatever country the traveller enters, reactions to that country are bound in with an extended interrogation of what it means to be an American.Less
This chapter discusses how American travellers during the Cold War became increasingly conscious of geopolitical tensions exacerbated by the fact that they were often under surveillance by the FBI or other agencies. Travel in this period was kept under government control through the difficulty or ease of obtaining a passport, but its nature was further politicized by the perception that countries belonged in either the Eastern or the Western bloc. Cold War travel narratives tend to demonstrate an extreme self-consciousness so severe that, whatever country the traveller enters, reactions to that country are bound in with an extended interrogation of what it means to be an American.
Shirley Foster
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311802.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Americans who travelled to Britain in the nineteenth century sought to explore and confirm a sense of national identity contingent upon a renewal and re-evaluation of Old World relations. America, no ...
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Americans who travelled to Britain in the nineteenth century sought to explore and confirm a sense of national identity contingent upon a renewal and re-evaluation of Old World relations. America, no longer the colonized, could now engage with the former colonizer as a means of entry into history, a source of cultural enrichment and a link with a visible past that the new continent itself lacked. This chapter shows, however, that the motherland which most Americans came to see and claim was one based on preconception and aesthetic imagining. The American visitor encountered an England incompatible with the idealized homeland of reassuring familiarity – the England of urban slums, dark industrial development, and a debased populace, alien because they had no prototype in canonical art or literature.Less
Americans who travelled to Britain in the nineteenth century sought to explore and confirm a sense of national identity contingent upon a renewal and re-evaluation of Old World relations. America, no longer the colonized, could now engage with the former colonizer as a means of entry into history, a source of cultural enrichment and a link with a visible past that the new continent itself lacked. This chapter shows, however, that the motherland which most Americans came to see and claim was one based on preconception and aesthetic imagining. The American visitor encountered an England incompatible with the idealized homeland of reassuring familiarity – the England of urban slums, dark industrial development, and a debased populace, alien because they had no prototype in canonical art or literature.
Amy Speier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479827664
- eISBN:
- 9781479858996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479827664.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
I introduce the general phenomenon of reproductive travel and survey the existing literature about this type of medical tourism. I apply feminist and globalization theories to this phenomenon as I ...
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I introduce the general phenomenon of reproductive travel and survey the existing literature about this type of medical tourism. I apply feminist and globalization theories to this phenomenon as I claim these holidays are political economies of hope (Rose and Novas 2005). I sketch the primary actors of this global care chain: IVF brokers who promise lower middle class North Americans they can have blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies, a European vacation, and excellent health care at affordable prices as well as the North Americans who travel to the Czech Republic for IVF using egg donation. I end the first chapter with a brief discussion of my ethnographic methodology and a layout of the rest of the chapters of the book.Less
I introduce the general phenomenon of reproductive travel and survey the existing literature about this type of medical tourism. I apply feminist and globalization theories to this phenomenon as I claim these holidays are political economies of hope (Rose and Novas 2005). I sketch the primary actors of this global care chain: IVF brokers who promise lower middle class North Americans they can have blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies, a European vacation, and excellent health care at affordable prices as well as the North Americans who travel to the Czech Republic for IVF using egg donation. I end the first chapter with a brief discussion of my ethnographic methodology and a layout of the rest of the chapters of the book.
