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"We Go to Europe to Be Americanized": European Travel and National Identity in Betsy and the Great World and My Heart's in the Highlands
- Children's Literature Association Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2008
- pp. 172-185
- 10.1353/chq.0.0005
- Article
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Abstract
Two young-adult novels of the 1950s, Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace (1952) and My Heart's in the Highlands by Ann Durell (1958), use travel as a lens to interrogate and construct American national identity. Lovelace’s novel, borrowing from the disappearing cultural ritual of the "grand tour,” looks backward in time to portray America as a confident, classless New World of democratic inspiration; Durrell’s novel, focusing on the emerging cultural ritual of the junior year abroad, uncovers emerging postwar sources of (justified) American self-criticism.
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