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Travel Culture Essays on What Makes Us Go

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Carol Traynor Williams, ed.

ISBN: 0-275-95727-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95727-8

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216 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/1998

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

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

About the Author: CAROL TRAYNOR WILLIAMS is Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University, where she has developed and teaches Women's Studies, as well as the interdisciplinary bachelor's program for adults. She is the author of The Dream Beside Me: The Movies and the Children of the Forties (1980) and It's Time for My Story: Soap Opera Sources, Structure, and Response (Praeger, 1992).

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