Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement
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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement
(Studies in American literary realism and naturalism)
University of Alabama Press, 2008, c2002
- : pbk
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"Paperback printing 2008"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [183]-196
Includes index
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With the publication of ""The Innocents Abroad"" (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain's five major travel narratives - ""The Innocents Abroad"", ""Roughing It"", ""Life on the Mississippi"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", and ""Following the Equator"" - demonstrate Twain's mastery and reinvention of the genre.
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