03260nam 2200685Ia 450 991082091320332120240501042848.00-8173-1350-8(CKB)1000000000774974(EBL)454572(OCoLC)427557193(SSID)ssj0000197950(PQKBManifestationID)11937367(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197950(PQKBWorkID)10168816(PQKB)10562289(MdBmJHUP)muse8916(Au-PeEL)EBL454572(CaPaEBR)ebr10309042(MiAaPQ)EBC454572(EXLCZ)99100000000077497420011114d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMark Twain, travel books, and tourism the tide of a great popular movement /Jeffrey Alan Melton1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20021 online resource (220 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1160-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.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 begins byStudies in American literary realism and naturalism.AmericansForeign countriesHistory19th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryTourismHistory19th centuryTravel writingHistory19th centuryTravelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismVoyages and travelsHistory19th centuryAmericansHistoryPopular cultureHistoryTourismHistoryTravel writingHistoryTravelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Voyages and travelsHistory818.408818/.409Melton Jeffrey Alan1962-1600915MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820913203321Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism3924260UNINA