Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century
| Author: | Jeffrey Alan Melton | ISBN: | 9780817313500 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press | Publication: | September 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | University Alabama Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jeffrey Alan Melton |
| ISBN: | 9780817313500 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
| Publication: | September 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | University Alabama Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
