“The river now began to bear upon our imaginations“
This paper examines the accounts of three British women, Margaret Hall, Frances Trollope, and Harriet Martineau, who travelled on the Mississippi River around the year 1830. In their separate narratives and contrasting experiences of the river at this crucial moment in its history, they provided def...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Language: | Français |
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2003
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This paper examines the accounts of three British women, Margaret Hall, Frances Trollope, and Harriet Martineau, who travelled on the Mississippi River around the year 1830. In their separate narratives and contrasting experiences of the river at this crucial moment in its history, they provided defining and archetypical answers to the problems that the Mississippi posed for its travellers in the decades before the Civil War. How were travellers to experience the giant river that confounded aesthetic principles? And how was the nation to embrace the symbolic central artery that bisected their young country? |
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