Exotic journeys : exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature, 1840-1930 /
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| Author / Creator: | Edwards, Justin D., 1970- |
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| Imprint: | Hanover [N.H.] : University of New Hampshire : Published by University Press of New England, c2001. |
| Description: | ix, 201 p. : 1 ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Becoming modern |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4451949 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Cruising the South Seas
- Ch. 1. Melville's Peep Show; or, Sexual and Textual Cruises in Typee
- Ch. 2. Primitivism and Homosexuality: The Search for the "Natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel Sketches
- Ch. 3. "Closer than blood-brothership": Male Homosocial Attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific
- Pt. 2. Europe and Beyond
- Ch. 4. Roman Holiday: Discourses of Travel and Eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun
- Ch. 5. Savage America, Civilized England: Counterdiscourses and Fluid Identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of Places and People Abroad
- Ch. 6. "Harems and Ceremonies": Edith Wharton, In Morocco
- Pt. 3. Travels at Home; or, Mapping the Modern City
- Ch. 7. "Why Go Abroad?": Djuna Barnes Explores New York
- Ch. 8. Carl Van Vechten's Sexual Tourism in Jazz Age Harlem
- Ch. 9. Going Home?: Questions of Belonging and Sexualized Space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.
