9781429838191 (hardcover)

1429838191 (hardcover)

Critical insights

On American road literature / Ronald Primeau

Critical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre / Ann Brigham

Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday / Marilyn Judith Atlas

Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature / Barry Alford

American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home / John Rohrkemper

Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road / Dominic Ording

Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" / Ann Brigham

Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris / Joseph J. Wydeven

Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers / Richmond Adams

Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions / Deborah Paes de Barros

The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic / David Bain

Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" / Christian Knoeller

"The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate / Caroline Maun

Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel / Maureen N. Eke

"Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris / Marybeth Pringle

Shoreline sansaras / Arvid F. Sponberg

Key to the highway: the road to the blues / Phil Patton

Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest / Steven K. Bailey

A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday / Matthew Low.

American literature > History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.