Descripción
In this book, Stefanie Schäfer 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.
Author: Stefanie Schäfer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/06/2023
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781474477451
ISBN10: 1474477453
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | Regional
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Historical Events
About the Author
Stefanie Schäfer is a Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has been professor of American Studies at Erlangen-Nürnberg and Augsburg, Germany. She specialises in Transnational American Studies and Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and Popular Culture.