Nineteenth-century British travelers in the new world

Introduction : seeing America / Christine DeVine

Part 1. Imagining a New World. 1. A joy on the precipice of death : John Muir and Robert Louis Stevenson in California / Matthew Kaiser

2. Utopian ideals in transatlantic context : Frances Wright's American vision / Caroline M. Kisiel

3. The failure of Dickens's transatlantic dream in American notes / John McBratney

4. National adolescence and imaginative freedom : the traveling desires of Martineau and Bird / Kendall A. McClellan

5. "Lodestar to Isabella's wanderings" : Bird's west and her British audience / Lindsay Mayo Fincher

Part 2. Politics and its discontents. 6. British travelers and the "condition-of-America question" : defining America in the 1830s / Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye

7. "Inexpressibly engaging" : Fanny Trollope visits Charles Bird King's portraits of Indian chiefs / Christine DeVine

8. Intertextuality in Charles Dickens's American notes and Basil Hall's Travels in North America / Nathalie Vanfasse

Part 3. Heading south : the slave states. 9. "Condemned of nature" : British travelers on the landscape of the Antebellum American South / M.B. Hackler

10. "My dearly-beloved Americans" : Harriet Martineau's transatlantic abolitionism / Deborah Anna Logan

11. "Too abhorrent to Englishmen to render a representation of it

acceptable" : slavery as seen by British artists traveling in America /

Susan P. Casteras

12. Telling "a still more dismal story" : cultural role-playing and surrogate narration in Kemble's Georgian journal / Kristianne Kalata Vaccaro

13. The closing of an American vision : alien national narrative in Henry James's The American scene / Keiko Nitta.