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Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of Us Travel Literature, 1840-1930(Becoming modern)

Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of Us Travel Literature, 1840-1930(Becoming modern)


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Recent scholarly works indicate a developing interest in travel writing and its place in the rhetoric of imperial expansion and colonial ideology. Exotic Journeys focuses specifically on representations as manifested in sexuality and eroticism in U.S. travel literature. Framing his literary analysis within 19th-century modernist developments such as urbanization, nationalism, imperialism, and consumption, Justin D. Edwards examines U.S. travelers in the South Pacific (Melville, Charles Warren Stoddard, Jack London), the European Grand Tour (Hawthorne, William Wells Brown, Wharton), and in American urban settings like Greenwich Village and Harlem (Djuna Barnes, Carl Van Vechten, Claude McKay). He captures a crucial moment in the formation of an American identity in opposition to the eroticized "foreigners" of his travelers' imaginations.

Table of Contents:
Melville's peep-show, or, Sexual and textual cruises in Typee -- Primitivism and homosexuality : the search for the "natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel sketches -- Closer than blood-brothership : Male homosocial attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific -- Roman holiday : discourses of travel and eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun -- Savage America, civilised England : counter discourses and fluid identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of places and people abroad -- Harems and ceremonies : Edith Wharton In Morocco -- Why go abroad? : Djuna Barnes explores New York -- Carl Van Vechten's sexual tourism in Jazz Age Harlem -- Going home? : questions of belonging and sexualised space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.

Review :
"This is a fascinating subject, and the book, in itself, is an exotic journey, of time as well as place." --Oxford American


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781584651161
  • Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of New Hampshire Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Becoming modern
  • ISBN-10: 1584651164
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Exploring the Erotics of Us Travel Literature, 1840-1930


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