Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 - Brossura

Edwards, Justin D.

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ISBN 10: 1584651164 ISBN 13: 9781584651161

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of New England, 2001

Riassunto

Recent scholarly works indicate a developing interest in travel writing and its place in the rhetoric of imperial expansion and colonial ideology. Exotic Journeys focuses specifically on representations as manifested in sexuality and eroticism in U.S. travel literature. Framing his literary analysis within 19th-century modernist developments such as urbanization, nationalism, imperialism, and consumption, Justin D. Edwards examines U.S. travelers in the South Pacific (Melville, Charles Warren Stoddard, Jack London), the European Grand Tour (Hawthorne, William Wells Brown, Wharton), and in American urban settings like Greenwich Village and Harlem (Djuna Barnes, Carl Van Vechten, Claude McKay). He captures a crucial moment in the formation of an American identity in opposition to the eroticized "foreigners" of his travelers' imaginations.

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• Editore: Univ Pr of New England
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1584651164
• ISBN 13: 9781584651161
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 201