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

By Jeffrey Melton

Book Overview

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817311602
• ISBN13: 9780817311605
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"