1st Edition
Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces The Early United States through Lens of Travel
By Jeffrey Hotz
Copyright 2006
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel in... Read more
Chapter One Questions of U.S. History, Citizenship, and American Identity Chapter Two Utopian Imagery of Place and the Dystopian Fragment: Imagining Trans-Appalachian Destinations in Trist's Travel Diary and lmlay's The Emigrants Chapter Three Translating the United States Frontier for the East: Literary Versions of the West in Cooper's The Prairie and Black Hawk's Life, 1827-1833 ChapterFour The Voices of Fugitive Slaves and Their Representations of Covert Geographies in the North, the South, and Abroad: William Grimes, Moses Roper, and Frederick Douglass Chapter Five Travels of Corporate Endeavor in Dana's and Melville's First Travel Narratives: Fractured Domestic Identities and National Projects Abroad, Conclusion Remembering Histories and Understanding the Present
Biography
Jeffrey Hotz is an Assistant Professor of English at Montgomery College and the Coordinator of the College-level English program at the Takoma Park campus. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the annual American Literature Association Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, and the American Conference on Romanticism.
