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Exotic journeys : exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature, 1840-1930
- Title
- Exotic journeys : exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature, 1840-1930 / Justin D. Edwards.
- Author
- Edwards, Justin D., 1970-
- Publication
- Hanover : University of New Hampshire, published by University Press of New England, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 201 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern
- Subjects
- Sex in literature
- American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism
- Americans > Foreign countries > History
- Erotic literature, American > History and criticism
- Exoticism in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
- Contents
- Melville's peep-show, or, Sexual and textual cruises in Typee -- Primitivism and homosexuality : the search for the "natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel sketches -- Closer than blood-brothership : Male homosocial attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific -- Roman holiday : discourses of travel and eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun -- Savage America, civilised England : counter discourses and fluid identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of places and people abroad -- Harems and ceremonies : Edith Wharton In Morocco -- Why go abroad? : Djuna Barnes explores New York -- Carl Van Vechten's sexual tourism in Jazz Age Harlem -- Going home? : questions of belonging and sexualised space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-10205
- ISBN
- 1584651156 (alk. paper)
- 1584651164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00012464
- OCLC
- 45363263
- Author
- Edwards, Justin D., 1970-
- Title
- Exotic journeys : exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature, 1840-1930 / Justin D. Edwards.
- Imprint
- Hanover : University of New Hampshire, published by University Press of New England, c2001.
- Series
- Becoming modern
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-10205