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Crossing the Atlantic : travel and travel writing in modern times / edited by Thomas Adam and Nils H. Roemer ; with an introduction by Frank Trommler ; contributors: Ashley Sides ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 42.
- The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing--United States--History--19th century.
- Travel writing.
- Travel writing--United States--History--20th century.
- Travel writing--Germany--History--19th century.
- Travel writing--Germany--History--20th century.
- Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, American.
- Travelers' writings, German--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, German.
- Women travelers--History--19th century.
- Women travelers.
- Travel writing--Middle East--History--19th century.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Germany.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- "Looking more closely at the conditioning of travel writing on both sides of the Atlantic, one cannot but notice a fundamental difference in the kinds of information set up in America and Europe. As the learning about European culture constituted a part of the education of the middle classes that became institutional in U. S colleges and universities at the end of the nineteenth century, travel to Europe was motivated by seeing in reality what had been studied, often with the additional investment in the languages.
- "In contrast to the institutionalized study of Europe in the American system of higher education, the study of the United States was hardly present in the canon of European learning in primary and secondary education
- "While this volume concentrates on transatlantic travel that undoubtedly produced the richest harvest of travel books, diaries, novels, and journalistic reports, it extends the perspective on voyages to a geographical area that generated travel writing of. almost equal density: what was called the Holy Land, nowadays the Middle East." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- American travelers in Europe
- 'That humane and advanced civilization': interpreting Americans' values from their praise of Saxony, 1800-1850 / Ashley Sides
- Internationalism, travel writing, and Franco-American educational travel, 1898-1939 / Whitney Walton
- German travelers in the United States
- Social crossings: German leftists view 'Amerika' and reflect themselves, 1870-1914 / Dieter K. Buse
- Mapping modernity: Jews and other German travelers / Nils H. Roemer
- Between modernity and antimodernity: from enthusiasm to hostility in German perceptions of big cities in America, 1870s-1930s / Andrew Lees
- Gender and travel
- Travel, gender, and identity: George and Anna Ticknor's travel journals from their 1835-36 journey to Dresden / Thomas Adam
- The women of Palestine in American women's travel writing / James Ross-Nazzal.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781603442657
- 1603442650
- 9781603442923
- 1603442928
- OCLC:
- 657270864
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