Divergent visions, contested spaces : the early United States through the lens of travel /
Hotz, Jeffrey.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-308) and index.
Questions of U.S. history, citizenship, and American identity -- Utopian imagery of place and the dystopian fragment : imagining trans-Appalachian destinations in Trist's travel Travel diary and Imlay's The emigrants -- Translating the United States "frontier" for the east : literary versions of the west in Cooper's The prairie and Black Hawk's Life, 1827-1833 -- The voices of fugitive slaves and their representations of covert geographies in the north, the south, and abroad : William Grimes, Moses Roper, and Frederick Douglass -- Travels of corporate endeavor in Dana's and Melville's first travel narratives : fractured domestic identities and national projects abroad -- Conclusion : remembering histories and understanding the past.
American prose literature
American prose literature
Travel in literature.
Traveler's writings, American
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Geography in literature.