Imagology Revisited

“This meticulously edited collection of twenty-three articles comprises the results of Zacharasiewicz’s forty years of research in the field of alterity studies, i.e. ‘the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples’. The reader of the present review will rightly conclude that the book’s cavalcade of images assumes almost Herculean dimensions. It embraces an astounding variety of subjects covering centuries and continents, but his multifaceted mosaic is held together by the terminology used and the application of models of thought such as climate theory. The book will be of invaluable assistance for everyone who delves into the field of imagological studies or is interested in such concepts as alterity, ethnocentrism, and transnationalism. The bibliography (roughly one thousand entries) and the opening review of research alone will be a treasure house for them.”– Jürgen C. Wolter (Wuppertal), in Amerikastudien: A Quarterly 58.2 (2013), pp. 310-312

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Personal Memoir: Towards the Study of ImagologyNational Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of ResearchNational Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of ResearchImagology and the Theory of ClimateThe Theory of Climate and the Tableau of NationalitiesForeign Faces: Physiognomy and the Theory of ClimateThe Theory of Climate in North American Texts since 1776Images of Europe and Its NationsJohannes Kepler, James Howell, and Thomas Lansius: The Competition between European Nations as a Literary Theme in the 17th CenturyTransatlantic Differences: (Mis)Perceptions in Diachronic Perspective Sketches of a Traveler: Observations on a Dominant Theme in Washington Irving’s WorkRemarks on the Tradition and Function of Heterostereotypes in North American Fiction between 1900 and 1940A Separate Identity Asserted: Agrarian Affinities with European CultureImagology of Germany in American CultureAtlantic Double-Cross – Reciprocity of Influence: Germany as an Alternative Model in the Search for an American National Identity, 1830 to 1930Southern Alumni of German Universities. Fashioning a Tradition of ExcellenceGerman Ethnicity in the American South and the Permeability of Ethnic BordersThe Rise and the Demise of German and Hybrid German-English in American (Popular) CultureStereotypes in Walker Percy’s Fiction Images of Vienna and Austria in Anglophone CulturesElective Affinities and Biased Encounters in the Alpine Provinces of AustriaMasks, Minstrels and Melancholy: From Waltzing in the German Paris to Descending into Dreams of DecadenceLa joie-de-vivre et l'ombre des tombeaux: Vienna and Austria in Canadian LiteratureImages of the English and Scots AbroadCharme à l’Anglaise – On the Image of the Restless Worldly-Wise from England in the Tableau of NationalitiesThe Rise of Cultural Nationalism in the New World: The Scottish Element and ExampleImages of Jews in North American CultureStereotypes and Sense of Identity of Jewish SouthernersSelf Perception and Presentation of Jewish Immigrants in North American Discourse, 1900-1940Images of Italians in Anglophone CulturesPerfect Revenge: Observations on the Image of Italy in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesPerspectives on the Mediterranean: Americans as Transatlantic SojournersBibliographyIndex