The first major study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks, and novels, Caesar applies ideological and postcolonial criticism to work published between Silliman's Journal of Travels in England, Holland, and Scotland (1810) and Thomsen's The Saddest Pleasure (1992).
This is a study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks and novels, this text applies recent forms of ideological and postcolonial criticism to a body of work published from 1810 to 1992.