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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Travel books"”.
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Mark Twain's thought as revealed in his travel books.
… prominent ideas expressed by Mark Twain in his travel books, to note the most characteristic thoughts, and to show how his thinking and attitudes changed and deepened as Twain advanced in years. The travel books used in this study are: The Innocents Abroud (1869), "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle …
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Travel in the life and writings of William Dean Howells
My approach to the problem of American travel in the nineteenth century was through the periodicals. In Harper's Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Monthly (later the Century), Putnam's Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and Scribner's Magazine, I found a wealth of travel sketches, articles on …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… the complex relationship between fiction and travel writing from the middle of the eighteenth century to the eve of the Great Famine. My examination of the intertextuality between novels and travel books including geographical publications and guidebooks reveals how fiction writers drew on …
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W. H. Auden's documentary vision
… Auden's experiments are his photographs in the travel books.
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
In their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century …
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Space is the Place: Space, Place and Transformation in the work of James Attlee
… appraisal concentrates on two non-fiction travel books: Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey (Attlee, 2007/2020) and Station to Station (Attlee, 2015), as well as one locative digital fiction, The Cartographer’s Confession (Attlee, 2017). The appraisal is structured around key statements …
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Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues
… America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues This study is concerned with the process of understanding and representation of the Other in travel narratives and the role of the traveler's cultural tradition and ideological beliefs in this process. I explore the images of the United …
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An index to the first eleven volumes of Ainsworth's magazine, 1842-1847, a Victorian periodical
… romances; sporting, domestic, and social novels; travel books; scientific and pseudoscientific studies; and biographies were among the books with wied appeal, and they were given serious consideration in the magazine. Not only the books reviewed, but the reviews themselves, are an important part …
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The Gentile Opposition in the Wasatch Region: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
… of the present one have been locked away in travel books and the reminiscences of the chance visitor to Utah or the pioneers, both Gentile and Mormon.</p>
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Americanitis : Amerika som sjukdom eller läkemedel : Svenska berättelser om USA åren 1900-1939
… on Sweden, also in the interwar period. Travel books, articles in periodicals, weeklies and newspapers, pamphlets, novels and parliamentary debates have been utilized as source material. Several narratives of a Swedish modernization have been discerned in the material. Common to most of …
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The Cape Khoisan in the Eastern districts of the colony before and after Ordinance 50 of 1828
… Library, as are certain private journals, travel books, and political commentaries of the time. Valuable secondary works and dissertations, in this and related fields, are available at the Jagger and African Studies libraries at the University of Cape Town. Part I provides a …