The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

This article examines the ways in which British travelers to the USA at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries articulated their different perceptions of a nation which was emerging as a major imperial competitor. Characteristically these responses showed an ambivalent te...

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Published in:European journal of American studies 2016-08, Vol.11 (2)
Main Author: David Seed
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
H.G. Wells
Rudyard Kipling
speculative fiction
travel writing
W.T. Stead
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