The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

Book Overview

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521678315
• ISBN13: 9780521678315
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"