English 015 - Americans Abroad
September 28, 2003 - October 04, 2003
Blog #3 assignment
Category: 03B: The Sun Also Rises | Mark Phillipson
“Maybe a story is better without any hero.” Hemingway crossed this line out of The Sun Also Rises, but it still haunts his novel. Does this novel have a hero? If so, zero in on a scene that demonstrates this heroism. If not, who comes closest to heroism – and...
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Posted by mphillip on October 02, 2003 at 02:22 PM
The American Stereotype
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Andrew Plowman
The American Stereotype A dazzling concept is to explore the perception of female Americans’ sexuality in foreign countries. This concept will begin with an evaluation of a foreign society’s stereotypical views on female Americans. Once this destined, promiscuous stereotype is clearly understood and proven we will evaluate rather or not...
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Posted by aplowman on October 02, 2003 at 02:20 PM
American Competitiveness in The Innocents Abroad and Daisy Miller
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Eric Robinson
In Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad and Henry James’ Daisy Miller, certain American characters become racially, socially, sexually, and even fashionably competitive towards one another or other foreigners due to the stress and unfamiliarity of interacting with new surroundings and/or frustration over incidents that occur while abroad. In several...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 02:15 PM
Comfort in Labels
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Zac Milner
Zac Milner 10/2//2003 Americans Abroad Comfort in Labels Winterbourne, in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller,” and Mrs. Slade, in Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever,” are often polar characters. The former is, as Daisy might say, ever so quaint. He is a man who “ha[s] no enemies: he [is] extremely amicable and generally...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 02:14 PM
Comfort's Consequence
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Tom Lakin
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad and Henry James’s Daisy Miller both explore the ways in which Americans make themselves comfortable in foreign countries. Twain and James use their main characters as vehicles to identify these various methods of establishing security by depicting the ways in which they react to their...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 02:13 PM
Escalating Competition
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Bryan Ciborowski
Americans are inevitably nervous and insecure with themselves when traveling abroad. The struggle for power and control instigates intense competitiveness between fellow Americans who strive to have the upper hand. While in an intense competitive state, Americans will not only lash against on fellow Americans, but also upon the...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 02:07 PM
A Separate World
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Hope Stockton
In Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever,” Americans abroad are mostly found to be very uneasy with their surroundings. In an attempt to make themselves feel more comfortable, these travelers work to create a separate world to which they can escape. To illustrate this behavior James uses...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:57 PM
Daisy Miller and Mrs. Ansley
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Matt Nickel
In “Daisy Miller” by Henry James and “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton, two characters, Daisy Miller and Mrs. Ansley, stand out from the rest. Traveling abroad separates them from their friends and family back home and provides them with a chance for a new beginning. They also discover a...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:51 PM
Competition Abroad
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Ben Ledue
As Americans travel to foreign places, they encounter a variety of emotional changes and experiences. A common sign of such emotions is a demonstration of their competitive side. In Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, as well as in Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever, a competitive nature is revealed by Americans...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:38 PM
Ignorant Americans
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Kelsey Abbruzzese
Ignorant Americans “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad,” wrote Mark Twain on page 164 of The Innocents Abroad. In The Innocents Abroad and Daisy Miller, both Twain and Henry James see how American ignorance occurred overseas. However,...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:34 PM
Prisons
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Meaghan Tanguay
English 015 Americans Abroad 1st paper, Final Draft Prisons By: Meaghan Tanguay The discovery of new sexual licenses by the women characters, Daisy Miller and Mrs. Ansley, while they are traveling abroad, is a fraud. They both enjoy many sexual adventures with European men which are new and exciting for...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:33 PM
Temporary Ease
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Ross Stern
All good literature deals with human nature and the conditions of human existence. Henry James’s Daisy Miller and Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad are no exception to this rule. These two books deal with the conditions of the American existence in foreign countries and the human nature that forces the...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:33 PM
Comfort: Americans at the Mercy of Their Surroundings
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Meg Gray
Achieving comfort, a state of psychical and mental relaxation, in unfamiliar surroundings is often unnerving and sometimes very difficult. In Daisy Miller by Henry James and The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, the characters consciously and unconsciously devise methods of establishing their own comfort while traveling abroad. However, because...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:20 PM
Ignorance: The American Culture
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Thomas Buehrens
What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? American. This common European joke demonstrates the general perception abroad that Americans are widely uncultured, and even relish...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:19 PM
Culture and Pretension in The Innocents Abroad and Daisy Miller
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Diana Heald
For many years, Americans have traveled to Europe in search of something that is not supposed to be available in their country: culture. Many Americans have found that first-hand knowledge of the world’s more established societies is necessary in order to become a well-rounded, “cultured” person. The travelers in Mark...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:18 PM
Fever to a Sexual Liberation
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Simon Parsons
Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever and Henry James’ Daisy Miller illustrate a similar phenomenon, where socially repressed women in America find a certain sexual liberation in the refuge of being abroad. Immersed in a different environment, native instincts appear to change, or perhaps are not deemed as important, and an...
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Posted by on October 01, 2003 at 09:40 PM
Essay 1 assignment
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Mark Phillipson
Write a structured, argumentative essay contrasting two of the following: Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, James’s Daisy Miller, and/or Wharton’s Roman Fever. Please remember all the advice available in Essayland. Feel free to come up with your own topic.... more on this below. For those of you who prefer suggested approaches,...
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Posted by mphillip on September 30, 2003 at 03:20 PM