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Author Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-

Title Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  818 C626YMEL    Check Shelf
Description xv, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-196) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 0817311602 alkaline paper
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