Part I - The United States as Exoticism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2009
Summary
The charm of the United States (and this charm is undeniable) is its exoticism. … This is truly a new world, which no longer has more than a remote kinship with the old.
André Siegfried, Deux mois en Amérique du Nord à la veille de la guerre (Paris: Colin, 1916), p. 1… what astonishes and indeed shocks us in the mentality, the manners, institutions, and ideals of America is no doubt that all of this is a premature and troubling unveiling of what will be, in many respects, the Europe of the future.
Georges N. Tricoche, Trente années aux Etats-Unis (Paris: Editions de la Revue Mondiale, 1927), p. 298- Type
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- Information
- Fascination and MisgivingsThe United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914, pp. 17 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000