The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
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The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing by Alfred Bendixen
Travel 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.
'This is a stimulating and informative work that covers much new ground: it has certainly got me thinking and I now have a long list of titles to seek outApart from the book's value to literature and travel studies, students of North American history will also find this book useful.' Bob Duckett, bibliographer and former reference librarian, Bradford, UK
Alfred Bendixen is Professor of English at Texas A & M University. Judith Hamera is Professor and Head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A & M University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521678315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521678315 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing |
| Author | Alfred Bendixen |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 314 |
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