Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780787618445
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0787618446
Series Statement:
Gale Literature Resource Center
Content:
Henry Adams (1838-1918) - Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907) - Maturin Marray Ballou (Lieutenant Murray) (1820-1895) - S.G.W. Benjamin (1837-1914) - Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) (1864-1922) - William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) - George Catlin (1796-1872) - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) - Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) - John William De Forest (1826-1906) - Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831?-1903) - Horace Greeley (1811-1872) - John Hay (1835-1905) - Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) - Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) - Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) - Henry James (1843-1916) - James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888) - George Kennan (1845-1924) - Thomas Wallace Knox (1835-1896) - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) - Frederick Albion Ober (1849-1913) - Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) - E.G. Squier (1821-1888) - Henry M. Stanley (1841-1904) - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) - Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) - Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) - Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925).
Content:
Realism replaced the romantic attitude that had previously dominated travel writing, due in part to thepractical exigencies of tourism, photography and industrialization. Discusses cultural biases in travel writing, combining accuracy with good story telling, and how hundreds of newspapers and magazines in the last third of the century made it possible to turn travel writing into a lifelong career
Note:
Original 454 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale Literature Resource Center
