Going Abroad : : European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture / / William W. Stowe.
In a nation struggling to establish its own identity, all kinds of Americans, for all kinds of reasons, were enchanted with Europe. A European trip, whether extravagant or modest, could serve social advancement, aesthetic enrichment, or personal curiosity. Travel allowed men and women, the descendan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Americans Abroad
- 2. Travel as Ritual
- 3. Guidebooks: The Liturgy of Travel
- 4. Travel Chronicles: Testimony and Empowerment
- 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Reluctant Traveler
- 6. Margaret Fuller and the Discourses of Travel
- 7. The Innocents in Europe: Twain, Travel Humor, and Masculinity
- 8. Henry James, or The Merchant of Europe
- 9. Henry Adams, Traveler
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index