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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 ... [et al.].
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- " . . . travel as an exploration of 'the other' which becomes an exploration of the self . . . a confirmation of identity."--from the Introduction, by Frank Trommler In an age when travel was more difficult but leisure was more available, those who journeyed across the Atlantic from the Old World to America or back created a wonderful literature about the divergent cultures and the fertile interactions among them. In travel diaries, journals, novels, journalistic reports, and guide books, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers recorded impressions and ruminations that not only offer opportunities for comparison and contrast but also shed light on the processes of modernization and the future that would emerge on both sides of the Atlantic. This latest offering from the important Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures series explores themes like urbanization, modernization, education, gender, Jewish identity, nationalism and internationalism, political and cultural values, and the experience of travel itself. Volume editors Thomas Adam and Nils Roemer have assembled a collection of varied studies that permit enlightened reflection on the ways in which travelers from the New and Old Worlds have observed, documented, understood, and negotiated their similarities and differences. The freshness and variety of the previously little-heard voices documented in Crossing the Atlantic will serve as an important reminder that an attentive interaction with "foreignness" has been and will continue to be one of the best paths to a more enlightened engagement with the familiar.
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-292-8
- OCLC:
- 726828954
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