LEADER 03297nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910454727803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-1350-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000774974 035 $a(EBL)454572 035 $a(OCoLC)427557193 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168816 035 $a(PQKB)10562289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454572 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8916 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309042 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000774974 100 $a20011114d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMark Twain, travel books, and tourism$b[electronic resource] $ethe tide of a great popular movement /$fJeffrey Alan Melton 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1160-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThis illuminating study reevaluates an often overlooked aspect of Mark Twain's writing-his travel narratives-and demonstrates their centrality to his identity and thinking. Travel books, Jeffrey Melton asserts in this study, are vital to Mark Twain's identity as a writer and to his cultural influence, and not just, as many critics have argued, preliminary sketches or failed attempts at fiction. Furthermore, the identity that Twain establishes for himself in these books as the arch ""tourist"" provides the most compelling perspective from which to view his entire body of work. Melton begins by 410 0$aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism. 606 $aAmericans$zForeign countries$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTourism$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aVoyages and travels$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xHistory 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 0$aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aVoyages and travels$xHistory 676 $a818.408 676 $a818/.409 700 $aMelton$b Jeffrey Alan$f1962-$01051849 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454727803321 996 $aMark Twain, travel books, and tourism$92482642 997 $aUNINA