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A Diary in America Frederick Marryat

A Diary in America By Frederick Marryat

A Diary in America by Frederick Marryat


Summary

Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) is remembered today as a novelist, but also wrote non-fiction. He spent 1837-8 travelling in North America, and published six volumes of observations in 1839. He was fascinated by the drive of Americans, but considered the country and people too heterogeneous to form a 'nation'.

A Diary in America Summary

A Diary in America: With Remarks on its Institutions by Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a distinguished naval officer, today best remembered as a novelist (particularly of stories for children), often drawing on his own experiences. He also edited a radical journal, and wrote non-fiction, including an attack on press-gangs, which damaged his career. He spent 1837 and 1838 travelling in North America, publishing his impressions in this unstructured six-volume 'diary' in 1839. He states that the number of contradictory and often trivial accounts of American life being published made him want to see the New World for himself. He found it impossible to make generalisations, given the size of the country and the different origins of new arrivals, and did not believe America would become a nation for many years. Volume 4 discusses immigration, and American authors and journalists.

Table of Contents

Travelling; Emigration and migration; Newspaper press; Authors, etc.; The Mississippi.

Additional information

NLS9781108032445
9781108032445
1108032443
A Diary in America: With Remarks on its Institutions by Frederick Marryat
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-06-02
312
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