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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002.
220 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 818.409
This illuminating study reevaluates an often overlooked aspect of Mark Twain's writing-his travel narratives-and demonstrates their centrality to his identity and thinking. Travel books, Jeffrey Melton asserts in this study, are vital to Mark Twain's identity as a writer and to his cultural influence, and not just, as many critics have argued, preliminary sketches or failed attempts at fiction. Furthermore, the identity that Twain establishes for himself in these books as the arch "tourist" provides the most compelling perspective from which to view his entire body of work. Melton be.
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Travel writing and tourism in Britain and Ireland / [Edited by] Benjamin Colbert
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
277 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.479141
From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.
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