{"product_id":"domestic-manners-of-the-americans-9780199676873","title":"Domestic Manners of the Americans","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDomestic Manners of the Americans\u003c\/em\u003e Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. A transatlantic best-seller on publication in 1832, its forthright criticisms of American manners encompassed spitting, religious extremism, ladies' dress, the relentless pursuit of money, and the unequal treatment of women, slaves, and Native Americans. Witty, satiric, and hugely entertaining, Trollope also had a serious purpose in warning her compatriots of the consequences of democratic freedoms at a time of great social change in England. Deploring slavery and the hypocrisy that sanctioned it, she fuelled abolitionist debate on both sides of the Atlantic and so impressed Mark Twain that fifty years later he considered her book to be the most accurate portrait of American life in the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Series: \u003c\/strong\u003e For over 100 years\u003cstrong\u003e Oxford World's Classics\u003c\/strong\u003e has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances Trollope \u003c\/strong\u003e(1780-1863) wrote her first book, \u003cem\u003eDomestic Manners\u003c\/em\u003e, at the age of 53 and went on to write over forty more after its phenomenal success. She travelled to America to assist in the founding of a utopian community in the face of financial ruin in England, and after several failed business ventures began to gather material for her travel book. She supported six children after the death of her husband, one of whom, Anthony Trollope, followed her into writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElsie B. Michie\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Her books include \u003cem\u003eOutside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) and \u003cem\u003eThe Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). She has edited a Frances Trollope novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Lottery of Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), complied the Oxford On-Line Bibliography for Frances Trollope, and published essays on Trollope in \u003cem\u003ePartial Answers\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Women's Writing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705001509138,"sku":"9780199676873","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b77142d-4df7-40a9-a4d5-c624d7fcd143.jpg?v=1762336082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/domestic-manners-of-the-americans-9780199676873","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}