In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs.

In this Washington, no outreached hand goes unmangled.

The earth hath wept to hear my heaviness, Which causeless to suffer without redress The hugy oaks have roared in the wind; […]

Applied to American Studies, imagology—the term derives from Latin “imago”/image—asks not how Americans themselves see America, but how other cultures view the United States. In other words, what is the image of the United States as seen in literatures from outside the United States?