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Author:

Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-

Title:

Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xv, 200 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Contributions in travel writing.
Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
Americans--Foreign countries--History--19th century.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Voyages and travels--History--19th century.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
Tourism--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

9780817311605 (alk. paper)
0817311602 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48475639

LCCN:

2001006997

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)