George Augustus Sala and the English Middle-Class View of America
In 1850 the journalist George Augustus Sala appealed to the perceived moral superiority of the English middle classes by satirising American slavery and Southern slave-owners. When Sala first visited America in 1863, as Special Correspondent for the 'Daily Telegraph' during the Civil War,...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2009-11-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/509 |