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Divergent visions, contested spaces : the early United States through the lens of travel
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- Creator
- Jeffrey Hotz
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2006
- Physical Details
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- x, 318 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415977081, 0415977088
- OCLC
- ocm64585705
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index.
- Questions of U.S. history, citizenship, and American identity -- Utopian imagery of place and the dystopian fragment : imagining trans-Appalachian destinations in Trist's travel Travel diary and Imlay's The emigrants -- Translating the United States "frontier" for the east : literary versions of the west in Cooper's The prairie and Black Hawk's Life, 1827-1833 -- The voices of fugitive slaves and their representations of covert geographies in the north, the south, and abroad : William Grimes, Moses Roper, and Frederick Douglass -- Travels of corporate endeavor in Dana's and Melville's first travel narratives : fractured domestic identities and national projects abroad -- Conclusion : remembering histories and understanding the past
Subjects
- American prose literature -- History and criticism -- 18th century.
- American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Travel in literature.
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Nationalism in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Geography in literature.
- United States -- In literature.
- United States -- Territorial expansion.
- United States -- History -- 1783-1865.