LEADER 04611nam 22006612 450 001 996201148803316 005 20160215092817.0 010 $a1-139-80137-6 010 $a1-139-00231-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000820049 035 $a(MH)011819837-8 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000371556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11923705 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000371556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412339 035 $a(PQKB)10361372 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139002318 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2050498 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000820049 100 $a20110114d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to American travel writing /$fedited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-67831-5 311 $a0-521-86109-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index. 327 $tIntroduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity /$rJudith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen --$tBeginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period /$rPhilip Gould --$t"Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing /$rWilliam W. Stowe --$tNew York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie /$rChristopher Mulvey --$tThe Mississippi river as site and symbol /$rThomas Ruys Smith --$tThe Southwest and travel writing /$rMartin Padget --$tAmerican travel books about Europe before the Civil War /$rAlfred Bendixen --$tAmericans in Europe : Henry James to the present /$rWilliam Merrill Decker --$tAmericans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine /$rHilton Obenzinger --$tAmericans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast /$rChristopher McBride --$tSouth of the border : American travel writing in Latin America /$rTerry Caesar --$tAfrican American travel literature /$rVirginia Whatley Smith --$tAmerican women and travel writing /$rSusan L. Roberson --$tDriving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature /$rDeborah Paes de Barros. 330 $aTravel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 606 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aAmericans$zForeign countries$xHistoriography 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aNational characteristics in literature 615 0$aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistoriography. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 702 $aBendixen$b Alfred 702 $aHamera$b Judith 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996201148803316 996 $aThe Cambridge companion to American travel writing$92493510 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress