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The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera.
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm
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PS366.T73 C36 2009
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Subject(s)
Travelers' writings, American
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History and criticism
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American prose literature
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History and criticism
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National characteristics in literature
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Travel in literature
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Americans
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Foreign countries
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Historiography
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Travel writing
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History
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Bendixen, Alfred
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Hamera, Judith
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index.
Contents
Introduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity / Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen
Beginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period / Philip Gould
"Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing / William W. Stowe
New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie / Christopher Mulvey
The Mississippi river as site and symbol / Thomas Ruys Smith
The Southwest and travel writing / Martin Padget
American travel books about Europe before the Civil War / Alfred Bendixen
Americans in Europe : Henry James to the present / William Merrill Decker
Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine / Hilton Obenzinger
Americans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast / Christopher McBride
South of the border : American travel writing in Latin America / Terry Caesar
African American travel literature / Virginia Whatley Smith
American women and travel writing / Susan L. Roberson
Driving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature / Deborah Paes de Barros.
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American travel writing
ISBN
9780521861090
9780521678315 ((pbk.))
0521861098
0521678315 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2008033445
OCLC
237325205
International Article Number
9780521678315
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