U.S.S. Cairo, one of "Pook's turtles," which fought on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers until sunk by a Confederate "torpedo" in the Yazoo River near Vicksburg, December 1862
In March of 2002 a few members of Trollope-l decided to read Trollope's travel book, North America together. We had read his mother, Fanny Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the Americans between January and February and now went on to read his in the light of hers.
The people who regularly posted to Trollope-l about this book included Judy Geater, Wayne Gisslen, Kristi Jaliks, Pat Maroney, Howard Merkin, Ellen Moody, Theo Nasser, Rory O'Farrell, Mike Powe, Teresa Ransom, Angela Richardson, Jill Spriggs, Joan Wall.
March 17: Chapters 4-6: A Taste for Parallelograms; On Travel Literature as a Genre; Contemporary Contexts; Sudden Moments; Trollope's Sympathy for Catholicism
March 24: Chapters 7-9: Romance and Realism; Niagara as a Required Magical Trope; The Maid of the Mist; Books on American Civil War; Still Fighting the Civil War; "The Two Generals" and Trollope's Brave Statements
The Falls of St Anthony on the Upper Mississippi
April 1: Chapters 10-12: Much Livelier; The Upper Mississippi; American Midwest; Soldiers Along the Mississippi
April 7: Chapters 13-15: An Apology for the War; New York; Genial Dogtrot; Boston
April 14: Chapters 16-17: Different Editions; Cambridge and Lowell (Harvard College); The Rights of Women; Emily Faithful; Trollope and the Superego; Crinolines; Trollope and Feminism
April 21: Chapters 18-19: Education and Religion; Boston to Washington
June 9/10: Chapter 31: Trollope's Warmth and Pro-Americanism; Generosity and Warmth of Tone; Self-Criticism; A 1951 Herald Tribune Review; Final Comments on Travel Literature and Trollope's Willingness to like the US.
Broadway, Spring Street, New York City, 1860 (old photograph)
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