Research Catalog
America : exploration and travel
- Title
- America : exploration and travel / Steven E. Kagle, editor.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | E161.5 .A42 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Kagle, Steven E.
- Description
- 205 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. Travel and the American identity: The idea of national character: inspiration or fallacy? / Lynn Altenbernd -- Speaking and touching: the problem of inexpressibility in American travel books / Wayne Franklin -- 2. Foreign travelers in America: Exploration and creativity: Chateaubriand's travels in America / Frans C. Amelinckx -- Travel narratives of D.F. Sarmiento: a seminal frontier thesis / Cathryn A. Ducey -- 3. American travelers abroad: Americans abroad: the popular art of travel writing in the nineteenth century / Ahmed M. Metwalli -- The traveller as antihero: Richard Smith Elliott in the Mexican War / Nicholas T. Joost -- Science in the exploration narratives authored by U.S. naval officers / V. Ponko, Jr. -- 4. Exploration and the American naturalists: John Muir's My first summer in the Sierra / Donez Xiques -- John Muir, Emerson, and the book of nature: the explorer as prophet / John Tallmadge -- 5. Travel & exploration as a theme in American literature: Hawthorne's "Foot-prints on the sea shore" and the literature of walking / Roberta F. Weldon -- Expatriation and exploration: the exiled artists of the 1920s / Marjorie Smelstor -- The family journey to the West / Paul T. Bryant -- The incorporative consciousness: Levertov's journey from discretion to unity / Victoria Harris -- "No time for fainting": the frontier woman in some early American novels / Edna L. Steeves.
- ISBN
- 0879721340
- 9780879721343
- LCCN
- 78071883
- OCLC
- ocm05056465
- 5056465
- SCSB-33644
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library