American Travel and Empire

The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The essays explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing. “This rich collection of essays suggests ways in which the multiple discourses of travel have always been integral to conceptions of American political power and cultural identity.” Paul Giles, University of Oxford Professor David Seed is Professor of American Literature at the University of Liverpool. Professor Susan Castillo teaches at King’s College London.

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ISBN Number 9781846311802

Author Susan Castillo and David Seed

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