travel in literature

A critical look at Edith Wharton's travel writing exploring how her writing differed from Washington Irving's and Nathaniel Hawthorne's by integrating scholarly and imaginative approaches to travel rather than focusing on lakes, waterfalls, mountains, and ruins.

Presents alphabetically arranged profiles of the lives and works of more than one hundred travel writers from 1450 to the end of the twentieth century, including fiction and nonfiction writers.

Contains twenty critical essays that explore the role of the hero's journey in various literary works, such as Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, " Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain, " Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings, " and Austen's "Pride and Prejudice.".