The Image of United States of America in 1870s in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Listy z podróży do Ameryki
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The article aims to analyze the image of United States of America, in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Listy z podróży do Ameryki. The novelist visited this country in 1876, in centennial anniversary of its Independence, during gilded age, and his accounts were published in several Polish newspapers in 1876-1878. Observing unknown country and society, the Novelist denied stereotypes about United States popular in the Old Continent. The image of complex, cosmopolitan, developing, full of liberties, and contradictions, as well as phenomena unfamiliar to European mentality was shown in his Listy.
Moreover, Sienkiewicz’s Listy which were written when Poles who had came to United States started to create first structures of future Polonia, can be consider as a source in researching of perceiving this country by Poles of that time.
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