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

Treats Mark Twain's travel narratives in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. This book shows that Twain's 5 major travel narratives - "The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", "Life on the Mississippi", "A Tramp Abroad", and "Following the Equator" - demonstrate his mastery and reinvention of the genre.

About the author

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

Summary

Treats Mark Twain's travel narratives in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. This book shows that Twain's 5 major travel narratives - "The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", "Life on the Mississippi", "A Tramp Abroad", and "Following the Equator" - demonstrate his mastery and reinvention of the genre.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Alan Melton
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780817355197
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5519-7
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies