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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement
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- Creator
- Jeffrey Alan Melton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xv, 200 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0817311602, 9780817311605, 9780817313500, 0817313508
- OCLC
- ocm48475639, ocn427557193
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-196) and index.
- The success of travel books and the failure of tourism -- Tourism and travel writing in the nineteenth century -- Touring the Old World : faith and leisure in The innocents abroad and A tramp abroad -- Touring the New World : the search for home in Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi -- Touring the round : imperialism and the failure of travel writing in Following the equator
Subjects
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Americans -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Voyages and travels -- History -- 19th century.
- Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
- Tourism -- History -- 19th century.
- Travel writing.