Exotic journeys
Subtitle: exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature, 1840-1930
By: Justin D. Edwards.
Series: Becoming modern
Publisher: University of New Hampshire, published by University Press of New England; New Hampshire
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Erotic literature, American -- History and criticism.; Americans -- Foreign countries -- History.; Travel writing -- History.; Exoticism in literature.; Sex in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Melville's peep-show, or, Sexual and textual cruises in Typee; title: Primitivism and homosexuality : the search for the "natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel sketches; title: Closer than blood-brothership : Male homosocial attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific; title: Roman holiday : discourses of travel and eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun; title: Savage America, civilised England : counter discourses and fluid identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of places and people abroad; title: Harems and ceremonies : Edith Wharton In Morocco; title: Why go abroad? : Djuna Barnes explores New York; title: Carl Van Vechten's sexual tourism in Jazz Age Harlem; title: Going home? : questions of belonging and sexualised space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.