Yankee Yarns

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture Yankee Yarns provides the first systematic study of the Yankee’s formation in 19th century US cultureCritiques US national historiographies by revealing an indulgence in storytelling, fraudulence, and self-irony at the heart of the US national characterArgues that US national culture is originally transnational and transatlantic In this book, Stefanie Schäfer provides the first study o