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PS1342.T73 M45 2002eb
PS1342
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T73
M45
2002eb
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0817313508
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9780817311605
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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism :
[Book]
the tide of a great popular movement /
Jeffrey Alan Melton.
Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2002.
1 online resource (xv, 200 pages)
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
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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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 cultural influence, and not just, as many critics have argued, preliminary sketches or failed attempts at fiction. Furthermore, the identity that Twain establishes for himself in these books as the arch "tourist" provides the most compelling perspective from which to view his entire body of work. Melton be.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism.
9780817311605
Twain, Mark,1835-1910.
Twain, Mark,1835-1910
Americans-- Foreign countries-- History-- 19th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Tourism-- History-- 19th century.
Travel writing-- History-- 19th century.
Travelers' writings, American-- History and criticism.
Voyages and travels-- History-- 19th century.
Americans-- Foreign countries.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
Popular culture.
Reisverhalen.
Reizen.
Toerisme.
Tourism.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, American.
Voyages and travels.
United States.
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