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

Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
ISBN-10
0817311602
ISBN-13
9780817311605
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2002-06-26
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Author
Jeffrey Alan Melton

Description

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives--The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator--demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.

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