Domestic Manners of the Americans / Edition 1

by Frances Trollope

Overview

Richly informative on American manners and morals in the early ninteenth century, this famous travel account also reveals much about the contrast between British and American culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781881089131
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/20/1993
Series:	Century Classic Ser.
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John L. Larson is Professor of History, Assistant Department Head, and Director of Graduate Education at Purdue University. Since 1994 he has been coeditor, with Michael Morrison, of the Journal of the Early Republic. His publications include Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age (1984) and Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Entrance of the Mississippi.

New Orleans…Society…Creoles and Quadroons…Voyage up the Mississippi.

Company on board the Steam Boat…Scenery of the Mississippi…Crocodiles…Arrival at Memphis…Nashoba.

Departure from Memphis…Ohio River…Louisville…Cincinnati.

Cincinnati…Forest Farm.

Servants…Society…Evening Parties.

Market…Museum…Phrenological Society…Miss Wright’s Lecture.

Absence of public and private Amusement…Churches and Chapels…Influence of the Clergy…A Revival.

Schools…Climate…Water Melons…Fourth of July…Pigs…Moving Houses.

Removal to the country…Walk in the forest…Equality.

Religion.

Peasantry, compared to that of England…Early marriages…Charity…Independence and equality…Cottage prayer-meeting.

Theatre…Delicacy…Visit of the President.

American Spring…Public ball…Separation of the sexes.

Camp-Meeting.

Omitted.

Departure from Cincinnati…Society on board the Steam-boat…Arrival at Wheeling.

Departure for the Mountains in the Stage…Scenery of the Alleghany…Haggerstown.

Baltimore…Catholic Cathedral…St. Mary’s College.

Voyage to Washington…Capitol…City of Washington…Congress…Indians…Funeral of a Member of Congress.

Omitted.

Small Landed Proprietors…Slavery.

Fruits and Flowers of Maryland and Virginia…Elections.

Journey to Philadelphia…Chesapeak and Delaware Canal…City of Philadelphia.

Washington Square…American Beauty.

Quakers…Presbyterians…Itinerant Methodist Preacher…Market…Influence of females in society.

Return to Stonington…Thunder-storm…Emigrants…Illness…Alexandria.

American Cooking…Evening Parties…Dress…Sleighing…Money-getting Habits…Tax-Gatherer’s Notice…Indian Summer.

Education.

Journey to New York…Delaware River…Stage-coach…City of New York…Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies…Public Garden…Churches….Morris Canal Carriages.

Omitted.

Journey to Niagara…Hudson…West Point…Hyde Park…Albany…Yankees…Trenton Falls…Rochester…Genesee Falls…Lockport.

Niagara…Arrival at Forsythes…First sight of the Falls…Goat Island…The Rapids…Buffalo…Lake Erie…Canandaigua…State-coach adventures.

Return to New York…Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

The best chronicle of the home and domestic life in antebellum America -- and of its municipal buildings, churches, museums, theaters, cities, and towns -- is still Frances Trollope's 1832 Domestic Manners of the Americans. -- Lingua Franca

Rochelle Gurstein

Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans was a huge transatlantic sensation when it was first published in 1832. In it, Trollope used the cover of travel narrative to offer a not-always sympathetic portrait of the young United States that was brash, extreme, and more than a little naïve. Trollope published Domestic Manners at the age of 53, and it has come to stand for the entirety of her work, but this was far from the case. Thanks to Sara R. Danger’s painstaking editorial work in this volume and her insightful observations about transatlantic relations, Jacksonian America, early Victorian England, and Trollope herself, this new edition is a vital contribution that establishes the socio-cultural significance of both a woman and her times.” — Brenda Weber, Indiana University Bloomington

“Scholars, teachers, and students alike rely on Broadview’s ability to reframe familiar classics and recover neglected works, and Sara R. Danger upholds this tradition in her edition of Domestic Manners of the Americans. Though Domestic Manners was intended for her British audience ‘at home,’ Trollope’s unflattering caricatures so riled the American public that her book created a transatlantic publishing phenomenon. This new edition reminds us why Charles Dickens called the book ‘one of the great pioneer exercises in transatlantic disparagement,’ and offers readers a feast of Anglophone print culture.” — Pamela Corpron Parker, Whitworth University

From the Publisher

Scholars, teachers, and students alike rely on Broadview’s ability to reframe familiar classics and recover neglected works, and Sara R. Danger upholds this tradition in her edition of Domestic Manners of the Americans. Though Domestic Manners was intended for her British audience ‘at home,’ Trollope’s unflattering caricatures so riled the American public that her book created a transatlantic publishing phenomenon. This new edition reminds us why Charles Dickens called the book ‘one of the great pioneer exercises in transatlantic disparagement,’ and offers readers a feast of Anglophone print culture.

Pamela Corpron Parker Whitworth University

Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans was a huge transatlantic sensation when it was first published in 1832. In it, Trollope used the cover of travel narrative to offer a not-always sympathetic portrait of the young United States that was brash, extreme, and more than a little naïve. Trollope published Domestic Manners at the age of 53, and it has come to stand for the entirety of her work, but this was far from the case. Thanks to Sara R. Danger’s painstaking editorial work in this volume and her insightful observations about transatlantic relations, Jacksonian America, early Victorian England, and Trollope herself, this new edition is a vital contribution that establishes the socio-cultural significance of both a woman and her times.

Brenda Weber Indiana University Bloomington