Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807: (Perspectives on Early America)
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Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807: (Perspectives on Early America)
Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807: (Perspectives on Early America)

Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807: (Perspectives on Early America)

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Matthew H. Pangborn (Author)  

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This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and nationality accompanying protoindustrialization and a growing consumerism. The tales thus express a complex self-reflection during a time when America's exploitation of its energy resources and its engagement in a Franco-British world-system was transforming the daily life of its citizens. The genre of the oriental observer, this study argues, offers intriguing glimpses of a nation becoming strange in the eyes of its own inhabitants.
Matthew H. Pangborn is an associate professor of English at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.
  • Contributor: Matthew H. Pangborn
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138358676
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 453
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2018-09-17
  • Series: Perspectives on Early America
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Matthew H. Pangborn is an associate professor of English at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.

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