John D. CoxБ Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
John D. CoxБ Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
ISBN: 0820327654 | edition 2005 | PDF | 265 pages | 8 mb
ISBN: 0820327654 | edition 2005 | PDF | 265 pages | 8 mb
Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study.