Traveling south travel narratives and the construction of American identity / [electronic resource] :
John D. Cox.
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
- 252 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
National characteristics, American--History--Sources. Travelers' writings, American. Travel in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. American literature--History and criticism.--1783-1850 American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
United States--Description and travel--Sources. Southern States--Description and travel--Sources. United States--Civilization--1783-1865--Sources. Southern States--In literature.