![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Trollope announces in her preface, she will offer neither an overtly political nor purely factual account of her sojourn in America. Readers witness Trollope's radical extension of domestic ideology's association of women with the visual regulation of home and family? She transports this way of seeing over the domestic threshold and uses it as a lens for political analysis. suits better the minute and lynx-like optics of the female, than with the enlarged and elevated views of things taken by the male traveler.įrances Trollope's bestselling travel narrative, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), complemented by Auguste Hervieu's twenty-four lithographic plates, positions readers at an unusual vantage point. ![]()
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