The colonizer abroad : : American writers on foreign soil, 1846-1912 / / Christopher Mark McBride.

• Superior document: Literary criticism and cultural theory
• VerfasserIn: McBride, Christopher Mark, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages).

Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a l...