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    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    05 September 2026
    ISBN:
    9781474477468
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European and World Literature: General Interest, Anthropology
    Series:
    Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European and World Literature: General Interest, Anthropology
    Series:
    Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
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    In this book, Stefanie Schäfer provides the first study of the Yankee’s many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee’s ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of transatlantic origin, the Yankee straddles regional and sectional, rural and urban, working class and bourgeois US identities. For nineteenth-century audiences at home and abroad, he becomes the hegemonic embodiment of US national character, its political and material culture and the homespun agent of its imperial fantasies.

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