Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism
Subtitle: the tide of a great popular movement
By: Jeffrey Alan Melton.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Americans -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.; Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.; Voyages and travels -- History -- 19th century.; Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.; Tourism -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.
Table of contents: value: The success of travel books and the failure of tourism; value: Tourism and travel writing in the nineteenth century; value: Touring the Old World : faith and leisure in The innocents abroad and A tramp abroad; value: Touring the New World : the search for home in Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi; value: Touring the round : imperialism and the failure of travel writing in Following the equator.