Divergent visions, contested spaces : the early United States through the lens of travel / Jeffrey Hotz.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hotz, Jeffrey.

Series:

• Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
• American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• American prose literature.
• Travel in literature.
• Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
• Travelers' writings, American.
• United States--In literature.
• United States.
• Nationalism in literature.
• National characteristics, American, in literature.
• Geography in literature.
• United States--Territorial expansion.
• Territorial expansion.
• United States--History--1783-1865.
• History.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

• Questions of U.S. history, citizenship, and American identity
• Utopian imagery of place and the dystopian fragment : imagining trans-Appalachian destinations in Trist's travel Travel diary and Imlay's The emigrants
• Translating the United States "frontier" for the east : literary versions of the west in Cooper's The prairie and Black Hawk's Life, 1827-1833
• The voices of fugitive slaves and their representations of covert geographies in the north, the south, and abroad : William Grimes, Moses Roper, and Frederick Douglass
• Travels of corporate endeavor in Dana's and Melville's first travel narratives : fractured domestic identities and national projects abroad
• Conclusion : remembering histories and understanding the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index.

ISBN:

0415977088

OCLC:

64585705

Publisher Number:

9780415977081