Retrospectiva de un viaje por Occidente, volumen 1 (de 2)
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~110.000 palabras · 541 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2) [Retrospectiva de un viaje por Occidente, volumen 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-1-of-2
- MLAHarriet Martineau. Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2) [Retrospectiva de un viaje por Occidente, volumen 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-1-of-2.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2) [Retrospectiva de un viaje por Occidente, volumen 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/retrospect-of-western-travel-volume-1-of-2.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
El libro de viajes que Martineau sacó del mismo recorrido por los Estados Unidos que dio «Society in America», pero escrito de otra manera.
Contexto e historia
Si aquel era el análisis —comparar lo que el país decía de sí mismo con lo que ella vio—, este es el relato: la gente que conoció, las conversaciones, las casas, los caminos, los barcos de vapor, una sesión del Senado, una plantación, una asamblea abolicionista. Se publicó en 1838, un año después del otro, y es el que le pedía el editor porque se vendía mejor. Su fuerza es la misma que la de toda Martineau: miraba con atención y escribía lo que veía, también cuando no le convenía. Los dos libros se complementan, y quien quiera el argumento ha de ir a «Society in America», que también está en el corpus.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
than from their former station. There they stood, as long as we could distinguish any forms from among the crowd. Then three cheers were exchanged between the crew and the shore, and the passengers strained their eyes no more. The greater number then went below to make arrangements in their staterooms; and afterward ensued the ceremony of introducing the company to each other on deck. Our number was twenty-three, six of whom formed the party to which I belonged; or, rather, so it seemed to ourselves before we went on board. The distinction was afterward forgotten, for the company assembled was, with two or three exceptions, so exceedingly agreeable and so wonderfully congenial, considering how accidentally we were brought together, that we mingled completely as one party. We had among us a Prussian physician; a New-England divine; a Boston merchant, with his sprightly and showy young wife; a high-spirited young South Carolinian, fresh from a German university; a newly-married couple, whose station was not exactly discoverable while on board, but who opened a public-house soon after their arrival in New-York; a Scotch major, whose peculiarities made him the butt of the young men; an elderly widow lady; two amiable young ladies; and a Scotch lady, "of no particular age," but of very particular placidity and good-humour; and a youth out of Yorkshire, who was leaving his parents' roof for the first time alone, and who was destined never to return to it. The number was made up by English and American merchants; young men so accustomed to pass between Liverpool and New-York, that the voyage was little more to them than an expedition to Primrose Hill is to a cockney. The cold dinner and drinking of healths customary on the day of sailing succeeded. Then there was the library to look over, and trial to be made of a seat on the rail, whence we could see the dim shores as we glided smoothly along in the wake of the steamer.…