American road literature
By: editor, Ronald Primeau, Central Michigan University
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing; Grey House Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781429838191
Subjects: History and criticism; American literature; Travelers' writings, American; Travel in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: On American road literature / Ronald Primeau; title: Critical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre / Ann Brigham; title: Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday / Marilyn Judith Atlas; title: Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature / Barry Alford; title: American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home / John Rohrkemper; title: Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road  / Dominic Ording; title: Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" / Ann Brigham; title: Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven; title: Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers / Richmond Adams; title: Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions / Deborah Paes de Barros; title: The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic / David Bain; title: Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" / Christian Knoeller; title: "The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate / Caroline Maun; title: Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel / Maureen N. Eke; title: "Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris / Marybeth Pringle; title: Shoreline sansaras / Arvid F. Sponberg; title: Key to the highway: the road to the blues / Phil Patton; title: Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest / Steven K. Bailey; title: A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday / Matthew Low.