Carol Williams

Travel Culture

Essays on What Makes Us Go

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Produktbeschreibung

Travel has been defined as one of humankind's primary and universal activities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays calls attention to the extent to which travel and tourism have permeated our lives and our society. The contributors introduce a wide range of intellectual perspectives through which travel culture is defined. From classic literature to travel diaries, from commercial films to home photography, this study of travel culture includes both high and low art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780275957278
• ISBN-10: 0275957276
• Artikelnr.: 21318123

Autorenporträt

Carol T. Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sight-Seeing: The Twentieth Century Perspective Origins of
Sight-seeing by Judith Adler "The Whole World Within Reach": Travel Images
Without Borders by Tom Gunning (Inter)Disciplinary Perspectives on the
Travel Culture White Knee Socks vs. Photojournalist Vests: Distinguishing
Between Travelers and Tourists by Marielle Risse Childhood and Travel
Literature by David Espey Popular Science on the Road: Adventures in Island
Biogeography by Michael Bryson Mapmaking: The Poet as Travel Writer by
Beatriz Badikian Identity in John Lloyd Stephens' Incidents of Travel in
Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by William E. Lenz D. H. Lawrence in
Taos: High Pilgrimage, Low Pilgrimage by John W. Presley Lawrence and
Beauvoir at Tua-Tah: European Views of the Heart of the World by Tamara
Teale "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow": Historic Memory and Gender
in Walt Disney's "Carousel of Progress" by Lynn Y. Weiner Route 66: Still
Kickin' for Students and International Visitors by Terri Ryburn-LaMonte
Pioneer "Stargazers": Twentieth-Century Travel Personified Touring America
in a Model T by David Tomlinson Learning Our Way Around the World: The
Overseas Teaching Subculture by Ruth Carrington Annotated Bibliography
Index