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Traveling south : travel narratives and the construction of American identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cox, John David
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2005.
Subjects:	National characteristics, American. Travelers' writings, American. Travel in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. United States > Description and travel > Sources. Southern States > Description and travel > Sources. United States > Civilization > 1783-1865 > Sources. Southern States > In literature.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9780820330860 0820330868 9786612726118 6612726113
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of 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.