Introduction: Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel
Chapter 1 – Walking in the City: Mobility and Dreiser’s Cultural Vision
Chapter 2 – Travel, Tourism, and Cultural Vision in Dreiser’s A Travel at Forty
Chapter 3 – Visual and Tourist Culture in Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday and Russian Travel
Writing
Chapter 4 – Body, Text, and Travel in Dreiser’s American Diaries and A Hoosier Holiday
Chapter 5 – Dreiser’s American Diaries, Promotional Discourse, and Florida’s New Frontier
Epilogue
Biography
Gary Totten is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow (2015), coeditor of Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing (2015), and editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture (2007).
