The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

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2009-01
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780521678315
定价: 259.00
装帧: 平装
开本: 16开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 301页
  •   Travel writing has always been intimately linked with theconstruction of American identity. Occupying the space between factand fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals thechanging desires and anxieties of both the traveller and thereading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace thejourneys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period rightup to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to theproblems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, fromthe Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land.Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travelwriting in the definition and formulation of national identity, andconsider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonicalauthors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for studentsapproaching this new, important and exciting subject for the firsttime. Notes on contributors

    Introduction: new worlds and old lands – the travel book and theconstruction of American identity

    Part I  Confronting the american landscape

     1.Beginnings: the origins of American travel writing in thepre-revolutionary period

     2.“Property in the horizon”: landscape and American travelwriting

     3.New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie

     4.The Mississippi River as site and symbol

     5.The Southwest and travel writing

    Part II  Americans abroad

     6.American travel books about Europe before the Civil War

     7.Americans in Europe from Henry James to the present

     8.Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine

     9.Americans in the larger world: beyond the Pacific coast

     10.South of the border: American travel writing in LatinAmerica

    Part III  Social scenes and american sites

     11.African American travel literature

     12.American women and travel writing

     13.Driving that highway to consciousness: late twentieth-centuryAmerican travel literature

    Chronology

    Further Reading

    Index
  • 内容简介:
      Travel writing has always been intimately linked with theconstruction of American identity. Occupying the space between factand fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals thechanging desires and anxieties of both the traveller and thereading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace thejourneys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period rightup to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to theproblems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, fromthe Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land.Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travelwriting in the definition and formulation of national identity, andconsider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonicalauthors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for studentsapproaching this new, important and exciting subject for the firsttime.
  • 目录:
    Notes on contributors

    Introduction: new worlds and old lands – the travel book and theconstruction of American identity

    Part I  Confronting the american landscape

     1.Beginnings: the origins of American travel writing in thepre-revolutionary period

     2.“Property in the horizon”: landscape and American travelwriting

     3.New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie

     4.The Mississippi River as site and symbol

     5.The Southwest and travel writing

    Part II  Americans abroad

     6.American travel books about Europe before the Civil War

     7.Americans in Europe from Henry James to the present

     8.Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine

     9.Americans in the larger world: beyond the Pacific coast

     10.South of the border: American travel writing in LatinAmerica

    Part III  Social scenes and american sites

     11.African American travel literature

     12.American women and travel writing

     13.Driving that highway to consciousness: late twentieth-centuryAmerican travel literature

    Chronology

    Further Reading

    Index
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