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Traveling south : travel narratives and the construction of American identity
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Traveling south : travel narratives and the construction of American identity / John D. Cox.
ISBN
0820327654 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
Physical Description
252 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-241) and index.
Contents
Representing America : the American as traveler in the work of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram
Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America
Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs
Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture
Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.
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