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Geographies of Travel

Susan L. Roberson
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Emily Post
environmental history
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Francis Parkman
Frederick Law Olmsted
Helen Hunt Jackson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
John James Audubon
John Muir
Life on the Mississippi
literary criticism
Margaret Fuller
Mark Twain
nineteenth century
Roughing It
Rural Hours
Susan Fenimore Cooper
The Souls of Black Folks
Thoreau
Tramp Across the Continent
travel narrative
travel narratives
travel writing
W. E. B. DuBois
William Cullen Bryant

Product details

  • ISBN 9781648432583
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulous adventures by becoming armchair tourists—second-hand voyeurs of the peoples and places the writer visited. In order to take readers along on their journeys, travel writers typically recorded miles covered and dates of travel in a log or diary. They also documented key details of the experience itself, describing the conditions of the road, the people they met, and their accommodations, food, and clothing. The nineteenth century, specifically, offered a form of travel writing that commented on the ruined environment that ran afoul of the century’s ethos of progress, with voices such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon exploring a newfound environmental consciousness.

Geographies of Travel is organized geographically by region, with essays examining local journeys in the Northeast, Midwest, Far West, and the South. This regional arrangement allows readers to consider the geographic imagination of each region and the kinds of travel it invited, as well as providing valuable insight on the ways in which Americans reacted to both natural and social regional landscapes. Each region is treated chronologically so as to interrogate not only individual narratives but also the ways that travel, tourism, and modes of transportation evolved over time. The work concludes with an examination of Henry James’s The American Scene in a coda that brings together his astute observations of the Northeast and the South at the turn of the century. Occasional interludes point to the ways that travel reverberates in the artistic work of some of the authors, making connections between travel and the imagination.
About Susan L. Roberson
Susan L. Roberson is Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. She is the editor of Women Across Time: Mujeres a TravÉs del Tiempo: Sixteen Influential South Texas Women and the author of Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities.

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