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Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807

Matthew H. Pangborn
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early American literature studies
Early National Period
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Eastern Observer
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Franklin's Letter
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Massachusetts Magazine
Montesquieu's Persian Letters
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Montesquieu’s Persian Letters
Nassau Hall
national identity formation
North Carolinians
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oriental observer genre
Oriental Tale
orientalism and protoindustrialization in America
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Philip Freneau
protoindustrial America
Scottish Common Sense Philosophy
Scottish Enlightenment Thinkers
Srinivas Aravamudan
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transatlantic cultural exchange
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Translatio Imperii
Turkish Spy
William Birch
Yale College
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367585839
  • Weight: 394g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.
About Matthew H. Pangborn

Matthew H. Pangborn is an associate professor of English at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.

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