Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives-- The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following ...
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Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives-- The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator --demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.
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New. Treats Mark Twain's travel narratives in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. This book shows that Twain's 5 major travel narratives-"The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", "Life on the Mississippi", "A Tramp Abroad", and "Following the Equator"-demonstrate his mastery and reinvention of the genre. Series Editor(s): Scharnhorst, Gary. Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372. 2008. 1st Edition. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
