Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

Jeffrey Alan Melton

Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Country
United States
Published
1 November 2008
Pages
224
ISBN
9780817355197

Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

Jeffrey Alan Melton

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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