Crossing the Atlantic
Crossing the Atlantic travel and travel writing in modern times / [electronic resource] :
edited by Thomas Adam and Nils H. Roemer ; with an introduction by Frank Trommler ; contributors: Ashley Sides ... [et al.].
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (viii, 258 p. )
- The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 42 .
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 42. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes index.
American travelers in Europe -- 'That humane and advanced civilization': interpreting Americans' values from their praise of Saxony, 1800-1850 / Ashley Sides -- Internationalism, travel writing, and Franco-American educational travel, 1898-1939 / Whitney Walton -- German travelers in the United States -- Social crossings: German leftists view 'Amerika' and reflect themselves, 1870-1914 / Dieter K. Buse -- Mapping modernity: Jews and other German travelers / Nils H. Roemer -- Between modernity and antimodernity: from enthusiasm to hostility in German perceptions of big cities in America, 1870s-1930s / Andrew Lees -- Gender and travel -- Travel, gender, and identity: George and Anna Ticknor's travel journals from their 1835-36 journey to Dresden / Thomas Adam -- The women of Palestine in American women's travel writing / James Ross-Nazzal.
9781603442923 1603442928
Travel writing--History--Middle East--19th century.
Women travelers--History--19th century.
Travelers' writings, German--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--Germany--20th century.
Travel writing--History--Germany--19th century.
Travel writing--History--United States--20th century.
Travel writing--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
G220 / .C76 2011
Includes index.
American travelers in Europe -- 'That humane and advanced civilization': interpreting Americans' values from their praise of Saxony, 1800-1850 / Ashley Sides -- Internationalism, travel writing, and Franco-American educational travel, 1898-1939 / Whitney Walton -- German travelers in the United States -- Social crossings: German leftists view 'Amerika' and reflect themselves, 1870-1914 / Dieter K. Buse -- Mapping modernity: Jews and other German travelers / Nils H. Roemer -- Between modernity and antimodernity: from enthusiasm to hostility in German perceptions of big cities in America, 1870s-1930s / Andrew Lees -- Gender and travel -- Travel, gender, and identity: George and Anna Ticknor's travel journals from their 1835-36 journey to Dresden / Thomas Adam -- The women of Palestine in American women's travel writing / James Ross-Nazzal.
9781603442923 1603442928
Travel writing--History--Middle East--19th century.
Women travelers--History--19th century.
Travelers' writings, German--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--Germany--20th century.
Travel writing--History--Germany--19th century.
Travel writing--History--United States--20th century.
Travel writing--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
G220 / .C76 2011