Yankee Yarns

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Yankee Yarns is written by Stefanie Schafer and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 147447747X (ISBN 10) and 9781474477475 (ISBN 13).

In this book, Stefanie Schafer 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.