| Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture Contributor(s): Schäfer, Stefanie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474477445 ISBN-13: 9781474477444 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Regional - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Historical Events |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.22" W x 9.29" (1.35 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, Stefanie Sch fer 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. |