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Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. These essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad
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monografia Rebiun24276870 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun24276870 m o d cr zn||||||||| 080728s2009 enka ob 101 0 eng 2008033445 GBA8B1834 bnb 459796301 496997156 609869845 749128579 821273583 830023735 847977828 1001926199 1027374530 1058031635 1069594496 1087434451 1109259726 1110268104 9781139002318 electronic bk.) 1139002317 electronic bk.) 9780521861090 0521861098 9780521678315 0521678315 1139801376 9781139801379 AU@ 000051465708 DEBBG BV035430690 GEBAY 11337966 HEBIS 222072091 Cambridge Univ Pr, 100 Brook Hill Dr, West Nyack, NY, USA, 10994-2133, (845)3537500 SAN 281-3769 PUL eng pn PUL MBB LYU HS0 ZCU UAB OCLCQ CUS CAMBR OCLCQ OL$ OCLCO YDXCP AUD DKU DKDLA COO OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ SFR VT2 QCL KIJ DEBBG OCLCF WYU LEAUB UKAHL AU@ OCLCQ NJT UWK 810.9/355 22 The Cambridge companion to American travel writing edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Travel writing Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2009 Cambridge New York Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge companions to literature and classics Cambridge Collections Online Includes bibliographical references 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 Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. These essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad English Travelers' writings, American- History and criticism American prose literature- History and criticism National characteristics in literature Travel in literature Americans- Foreign countries- Historiography Travel writing- History American prose literature National characteristics in literature Travel in literature Travel writing Travelers' writings, American English American Literature Languages & Literatures Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Bendixen, Alfred Hamera, Judith Cambridge companions complete collection 9780521861090 Cambridge companions to literature and classics Cambridge collections online