Bayard Taylor's Travels: A visit to India, China, and Japan in the year 1853
Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1880
Category : East Asia
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Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1880
Category : East Asia
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Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 539 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1855
Category : China
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Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838753637
Taylor was one of the most famous persons of his day and carried on a wide correspondence. His ambition and thirst for fame are recurrent themes in these letters, as well as his fears and uncertainties. He emerges as a highly talented writer who succeeded by force of will.
Author : Liam Corley
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 161148572X
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) was a nineteenth-century American who combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men of his time. The range and significance of Taylor’s oeuvre explains his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives, innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day. Taylor's diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d’affaires to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878. This analysis of Taylor’s life and works helps to explain three important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven society. The introduction describes Taylor's changing fortunes within literary history and presents a methodological approach to the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism abroad. Taylor’s novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive sexuality and demonstrate how Taylor's manipulation of reputation and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression and freedom. Taylor’s 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is frequently cited as America's first gay novel. This book's analysis of Taylor’s poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious subcultures.
Author : Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Jozef Rogala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136639233
Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.
Author : Henry Allon
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Christianity
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Author : Paul Charles Wermuth
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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