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Author Cox, John David.

Title Traveling south [electronic resource] : travel narratives and the construction of American identity / John D. Cox.

Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 252 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
Contents Representing America : the American as traveler in the work of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and William Bartram -- Moving slaves : Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, and the politics of travel in antebellum America -- Domestic travel : the narratives of Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs -- Yeomen all : Frederick Law Olmsted and the consolidation of the American economy and culture -- Tourists with guns (and pens) : Union soldiers and the Civil War South.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject National characteristics, American -- History -- Sources.
Travelers' writings, American.
Travel in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
United States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
Southern States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
Southern States -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780820327655 (alk. paper)
0820327654 (alk. paper)

 
    
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