- Tytuł:
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Polski szlachcic w Ameryce. Obraz Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki Północnej w świetle pamiętników Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza. Próba naszkicowania problemu,
A Polish nobleman in America: a portrait of the USA in the light of the diaries of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz – the attempt to outline the issue - Autorzy:
- Maliszewski, Kazimierz
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1193699.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015
- Wydawca:
- Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
- Tematy:
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the Enlightenment
Romanticism
the 18th–19th centuries
Polish culture
American culture and civilisation
travels of the Polish aristocracy
Polish memoirs
travel accounts
biographies
stereotypes and ideas about the world, founders of the USA
Poles in the USA - Opis:
- Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758–1841) was a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, diarist, journalist, translator and politician. He circulated in culturally and politically significant entourages such as the court of the Czartoryski family and King Stanisław August Poniatowski, the societies of pre-revolutionary France; he was an adjutant and a personal secretary of Tadeusz Kościuszko; he was also acquainted with George Washington. During his life he carried out many long trips to various European countries; he lived in the USA for over 8 years. Fortunately for his descendants, he wrote "Pamiętniki czasów moich" [English: Memoirs of my times] which, along with "Podróże po Ameryce 1797–1807" [English: Travels throughout America 1797–1807], constitute a basic source for this article. His diary is the first extensive description of the USA from the turn of the 18th and the 19th centuries based on the personal observations of the author. A closer analysis of this rich source material allows us to reconstruct the outlines of the image of the new state in America created in the mind of this outstanding representative of Polish culture. The source research conducted here is of an exploratory nature. The work includes quotations from the writer’s diary following the rule of pars pro toto. As a result, the work constitutes merely an outline of the problem included in the title; it requires further research to be subsequently presented in a monograph, which would take into account all the cultural background of the Polish ideas concerning the USA in the 18th–19th centuries.
- Źródło:
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Zapiski Historyczne; 2015, 80, 3; 207-221
0044-1791
2449-8637 - Pojawia się w:
- Zapiski Historyczne
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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