Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement /

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This illuminating study reevaluates an often overlooked aspect of Mark Twain's writing-his travel narratives-and demonstrates their centrality to his identity and thinking. Travel books, Jeffrey Melton asserts in this study, are vital to Mark Twain's identity as a writer and to his cultura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.
Colección:Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Temas:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910
1800-1899
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Americans > Foreign countries > History > 19th century.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
Voyages and travels > History > 19th century.
Travel writing > History > 19th century.
Tourism > History > 19th century.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Américains > Pays étrangers > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrits de voyageurs américains > Histoire et critique.
Voyages > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Americans > Foreign countries.
Popular culture.
Tourism.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
Voyages and travels.
Reisverhalen.
Reizen.
Toerisme.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The success of travel books and the failure of tourism
  • Tourism and travel writing in the nineteenth century
  • Touring the Old World : faith and leisure in The innocents abroad and A tramp abroad
  • Touring the New World : the search for home in Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi
  • Touring the round : imperialism and the failure of travel writing in Following the equator.

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