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The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera.

Other author/creatorBendixen, Alfred.
Other author/creatorHamera, Judith.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Descriptionix, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
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.
Portion of title American travel writing
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index.
LCCN 2008033445
ISBN9780521861090
ISBN0521861098
ISBN9780521678315 (pbk.)
ISBN0521678315 (pbk.)

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