Traveling South : Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity.
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TextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820330860
- National characteristics, American -- History -- Sources
- Travelers'' writings, American
- Travel in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- United States -- Description and travel -- Sources
- 917.3/04
- E161.5 -- .C69 2005eb
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: Representing America: The American as Traveler in the Work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram -- CHAPTER TWO: Moving Slaves: Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the Politics of Travel in Antebellum America -- CHAPTER THREE: Domestic Travel: The Narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- CHAPTER FOUR: Yeomen All: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Consolidation of the American Economy and Culture -- CHAPTER FIVE: Tourists with Guns (and Pens): Union Soldiers and the Civil War South -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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