Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.
Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.
Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.
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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
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N818.409/6
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English
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xv, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Success of Travel Books and the Failure of Tourism -- 2. Tourism and Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Touring the Old World: Faith and Leisure in The Innocents Abroad and A Tramp Abroad -- 4. Touring the New World: The Search for Home in Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi -...
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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
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Alabama
Date Published
c2002.
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"In this work, Jeffrey Melton asserts that it was no coincidence that Mark Twain made such extensive use of the travel-writing genre or that so many readers loved these narratives. Twain recognized the lucrative sales potential of travel books and capitalized on it throughout a varied and formidable career; consistently, his travel books proved to...
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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton.
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.
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N818.409/6
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0817311602 :
9780817311605 (alk. paper)
0817311602 (alk. paper)
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818.409
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991016614179702626
