Domestic Manners of the Americans
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781554811113
Subjects: United states, description and travel; United states, social life and customs; Authors, english
Description: Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu's satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Manners recounts Trollope's three years as an Englishwoman living in America. Trollope makes the civility of an entire nation the subject of her keen scrutiny, a strategy that would earn her, in the words of the critic Michael Sadleir, "more anger and applause than almost any writer of her day." Auguste Hervieu's twenty-four original illustrations, placed and scaled as in the first edition, are included in this Broadview Edition, inviting readers to experience the original relationship of image and text. --Provided by publisher