“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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cairn-RFEA_098_0020RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2003-4-page-20?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.098.0020 “The river now began to bear upon our imaginations“ Smith, Thomas2003 FrancesHallHarrietKembleMargaretMartineauMississippiSublimeTourisme pittoresqueTrollopeFrancesHallHarrietKembleMargaretMartineauMississippi RiverPicturesque TourismSublimeTrollopefre Revue française d’études américaines | 98 | 4 | 2003-12-01 | p. 20-30 | 0397-7870 RFEA_09813 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?Cairn free access |
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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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