Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

Author:   Jeffrey Alan Melton ,  Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817355197


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 October 2008
Format:   Paperback
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"With the publication of """"The Innocents Abroad"""" (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives - """"The Innocents Abroad"""", """"Roughing It"""", """"Life on the Mississippi"""", """"A Tramp Abroad"""", and """"Following the Equator"""" - demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre."

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Author:   Jeffrey Alan Melton ,  Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780817355197


ISBN 10:   0817355197
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 October 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Worthwhile reading for humor scholars, Twainiacs, and those interested in travel and travel theory generally. -- Choice This book should be compelling to anyone interested in Twain, travel writing, or Americans' attitudes about travel. It may be a testament to Twain's enduring insights--or maybe just proof that human nature doesn't change--that his observations about American travelers are as relevant in the age of the jet as they were in the days of the steamship --Foreword Melton's book addresses the issues of race, imperialism and culture in a measured, thoughtful way. . . . Melton is making deliberate headway and guiding the reader upstream, not simply allowing the reader to be swept passively along with the tide --Mark Twain Forum Worthwhile reading for humor scholars, Twainiacs, and those interested in travel and travel theory generally. Choice


Worthwhile reading for humor scholars, Twainiacs, and those interested in travel and travel theory generally. -- Choice


Worthwhile reading for humor scholars, Twainiacs, and those interested in travel and travel theory generally. Choice


"Worthwhile reading for humor scholars, Twainiacs, and those interested in travel and travel theory generally. -- Choice This book should be compelling to anyone interested in Twain, travel writing, or Americans' attitudes about travel. It may be a testament to Twain's enduring insights--or maybe just proof that human nature doesn't change--that his observations about American travelers are as relevant in the age of the jet as they were in the days of the steamship--Foreword ""Melton's book addresses the issues of race, imperialism and culture in a measured, thoughtful way. . . . Melton is making deliberate headway and guiding the reader upstream, not simply allowing the reader to be swept passively along with the tide""--Mark Twain Forum"


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Jeffrey Alan Melton is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery and coeditor, with Alan Gribben, of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader.

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