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Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
John D. Cox
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Description for Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
Hardcover. A study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars. The author makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts including slave narratives, domestic literature, soldiers' diaries, and traditional forms of travel writing. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 513.
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.
The writers of these intranational accounts struggled with the significance of travel through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327655
SKU
V9780820327655
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About John D. Cox
JOHN D. COX is an assistant professor of English at Georgia College & State University. He also serves as the associate director of the Center for Georgia Studies and the assistant editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review.
Reviews for Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity
Cox's critical approach reflects an unusual and interesting combination of interests in the cognate areas of travel writing, domestic narratives, and nationalist literature. I know of no other book quite like this one, and I consider it a fresh approach to an important and timely subject.
Michael P. Branch
editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before ... Read more
Traveling South is a solid and well-conceptualized book with very smart and persuasive arguments and insights. Cox shows excellent command of the scholarship of travel, travel writing, and of the individual travelers he analyzes. Cox carves out a niche in the scholarship of the field as well as in the interpretation of texts of travel.
Mary S. Schriber
author of Writing Home: American Women Abroad
Traveling South is a carefully argued book that provides many surprising insights into texts both familiar and forgotten. Cox deftly creates space for himself amid the established critical approaches to nationalism, slavery, domesticity, and travel writing; more importantly he is able to map out in a clear and straightforward manner the often subtle connections among these unwieldy issues.
Studies in American Culture In addition to providing a new perspective from which to explore southern social and cultural history, Cox makes his most significant contributions in Traveling South to the study of travel and American literature by attempting to broaden the scope of the genre of travel literature. . . . Cox's use of a wide variety of scholarship facilitates his novel approach to the study of the antebellum South and American national identity. The arguments Cox makes in Traveling South are provocative and generally persuasive. The connection the author draws between American identity and that of the United States' 'internal other,' the South, is most compelling and one that is too often overlooked by scholars.
Southern Historian Show Less
Michael P. Branch
editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before ... Read more
Traveling South is a solid and well-conceptualized book with very smart and persuasive arguments and insights. Cox shows excellent command of the scholarship of travel, travel writing, and of the individual travelers he analyzes. Cox carves out a niche in the scholarship of the field as well as in the interpretation of texts of travel.
Mary S. Schriber
author of Writing Home: American Women Abroad
Traveling South is a carefully argued book that provides many surprising insights into texts both familiar and forgotten. Cox deftly creates space for himself amid the established critical approaches to nationalism, slavery, domesticity, and travel writing; more importantly he is able to map out in a clear and straightforward manner the often subtle connections among these unwieldy issues.
Studies in American Culture In addition to providing a new perspective from which to explore southern social and cultural history, Cox makes his most significant contributions in Traveling South to the study of travel and American literature by attempting to broaden the scope of the genre of travel literature. . . . Cox's use of a wide variety of scholarship facilitates his novel approach to the study of the antebellum South and American national identity. The arguments Cox makes in Traveling South are provocative and generally persuasive. The connection the author draws between American identity and that of the United States' 'internal other,' the South, is most compelling and one that is too often overlooked by scholars.
Southern Historian Show Less