Provisional pre-20th century bibligraphies

pre-20th C Africa

Bencherif, Osman. The Image of Algeria in Anglo-American Writings, 1785-1962. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997. * PR129.A39 B46

pre-20th C Asia

Eperjesi, John R. The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2005. * PS159.A85 E64

Miller, Stuart Creighton. The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. * E184.C5 M5

Tchen, John Kuo Wei. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. * DS706.T4

pre-20th C Caribbean and Latin America

Evans, R. Tripp. Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. * F1435.E88

Hunt, Alfred N. Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. * E184.H27 H86

pre-20th C Europe

Barclay, David E., and Glaser-Schmidt, Elisabeth, eds. Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776. Washington: German Historical Institute, 1997. * essay collection * E183.8.G3 T68

Gemme, Paola. Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. * E183.8.I8 G455

Katz, Philip M. From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. * DC317 .K37

Leventhal, Fred M., and Quinault, Roland, eds. Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. * E183.8.G7 A66

McConville, Brendan. The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. * E195.M33

Pappas, Paul Constantine. The United States and the Greek War for Independence, 1821-1828. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1985. * DF807 .P37

Prochaska, Frank. The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. * E183.8.G7 P76

Spiller, Robert E. The American in England during the First Half Century of Independence. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1976 (orig 1926). * DA625.S77

Tamarkin, Elisa. Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. * E165.T17

pre-20th C Middle East

Long, Burke O. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. * E169.04 L657

Marr, Timothy. “’Out of this World’: Islamic Irruptions in the Literary Americas.” American Literary History 18 (2006): 521-549.

Marr, Timothy. The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. * E164 .M37

Obenzinger, Hilton. American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. * PS2384.C53 O24

Sha’ban, Fuad. Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America. Durham: Acorn Press, 1991. * DS63.2.U5 S33

Trafton, Scott. Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. * DT76.95.U6 T73

Vogel, Lester I. To See a Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. * DS107 .V635

pre-20th C Pacific Oceania

Edmond, Rod. Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. * DU68.E85 E36

Geiger, Jeffrey. Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. * DU30.G45

Lyons, Paul. “From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Literary Tourism and the Discourse of Cannibalism from Herman Melville to Paul Theroux.” Arizona Quarterly 51 (1995): 33-62.

Lyons, Paul. “’They Will Eat Us Up’: Remembering Hawaii.” American Literary History 16 (2004): 543-557.

Lyons, Paul. American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination. New York: Routledge, 2006. * PS159.O28 L96

Wilson, Rob. Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. * DU18.W55
 

travel literature; by American writers

Allen, Walter Ernest. Transatlantic Crossing: American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Morrow, 1971. * DA625.A43

Brown, Sharon Rogers. American Travel Narratives as a Literary Genre from 1542 to 1832: The Art of a Perpetual Journey. Lewiston: Edwin. Mellen Press, 1993. * PS366.T73 B76

Burnham, Michelle. Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007. * PS191 .B87 2007

Caesar, Terry. Forgiving the Boundaries: Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. * PS366.T73 C34

Cox, John D. Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. * E161.5 C69

Fish, Cheryl J. Black and White Women’s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. * PS366.T73 F57

Franklin, Wayne. Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: Diligent Writers of Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. * E141.F7

Giles, Paul. Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. * PS159.G8 G53

Hotz, Jeffrey. Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces: The Early United States through the Lens of Travel. New York: Routledge, 2006. * PS366.T73 H68

Imbarrato, Susan. Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. * PS366.T73 I43

Lueck, Beth Lynne. American Writers and the Picturesque Tour: The Search for National Identity, 1790-1860. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. * PS366.T73 L84

McBride, Christopher Mark. The Colonizer Abroad: American Writers on Foreign Soil, 1846 1912. New York: Routledge, 2004. * PS366.T73 M38

Mulvey, Christopher. Anglo-American Landscapes: A Study of 19th Century Anglo-American Travel Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. * PR778.T72 M8

Mulvey, Christopher. Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. * PR778.T72 M84

Regis, Pamela. Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992. * PS367.R44

Schriber, Mary Suzanne. Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. * PS366.T73 S37

Stowe, William W. Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. * PS366.T73 S76

Ziff, Larzer. Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. * PS366.T73 Z54

miscellaneous articles

Paredes, Raymund A. “The Mexican Image in American Travel Literature, 1831-1869.” New Mexico Historical Review 52 (1977): 5-13.

Abstract: Most of the information available to the people of the United States concerning Mexico in the mid-19th century is found in travel accounts written by Americans visiting Mexico. As Mexico became more familiar to the Americans, fewer such accounts were published. One of the best assessments of New Mexico is found in Josiah Gregg, Commerce on the Prairies (1844). He is generally complimentary in writing about the people of New Mexico, but he thought the provincial government was corrupt. Other travelers from the United States who wrote about Mexico and Mexicans in the West and Far West included: James Ohio Pattie, Albert Pike, Mary Austin Holley, George Wilkins Kendall, Richard Henry Dana, Alfred Robinson, Walter Colton, Bayard Taylor, John Russell Bartlett, Albert Gilliam, Brantz Mayer, John T. Hughes, Frank S. Edwards, Captain W. S. Henry, Adolph Wislizenus, Rufus Sage, Samuel Hammett, William Shaler, Thomas J. Farnham, Thomas Davis, William H. Emory, W. W. H. Davis, and J. Ross Browne.

Chew, William L., III. “Life Before Fodor And Frommer: Americans in Paris from Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams.” French History 18 (2004): 25-49.

Abstract: Most studies of American travel experiences in France have neglected the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon. The author looks at aspects of American travel experiences in Paris from 1789 to 1815, contextualizing these within a background of American attitudes about France and the French, domestic and international issues at the time, contemporary travel practices, Franco-American relations, and concepts of "otherness." Many Americans arrived in Paris with ingrained negative stereotypes about the French gleaned from British literature and the stormy diplomatic relationship between France and the United States. Americans tended to feel morally superior to the French and viewed France's turbulent politics as further proof of American exceptionalism, superiority, and the relative strength of the US political system. * Period: 1789-1815.

Gray, Edward G. “Visions of Another Empire: John Ledyard, an American Traveler Across the Russian Empire, 1787-1788.” Journal of the Early Republic 24 (2004): 347-380.

Abstract: Considers the republican conception of empire, particularly as found in John Ledyard's travel writings. Ledyard traversed nearly all of the Russian empire in 1787 and 1788. His personal reflections suggest a revolutionary-era thinking about empire that was often consistent with Thomas Jefferson's views. Rather than an opportunistic vision born of the postrevolutionary opening of the American West, the Jeffersonian vision of empire was of a broad Anglo-American inquiry into the nature and meaning of empire, including the problem of racial and ethnic differences inherent to a diverse empire. * Period: 1787-88.


Russo, John Paul. “The Unbroken Charm: Margaret Fuller, G.S. Hillard, and the American Tradition of Travel Writing on Italy.” Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica [Italy] 1 (2001): 203-220.

Abstract: Italy fascinated many famous American travelers throughout the 19th century. Such famous New Englanders as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton composed books on their journeys that constitute a veritable tradition of travel writing on Italy. They established a series of oppositions between Italy and America: aristocratic versus democratic society, Catholicism versus Protestantism, leisure and indolence versus the Puritan work ethic. Lawyer and politician George Stillman Hillard and writer Margaret Fuller both continued and challenged this tradition during 1846-50. In particular, Fuller, though she never wrote a book on her travels in Italy, revised through her letters the stark oppositions established by her male counterparts. * Period: 1846-50.

Chew, William L., III. “Yankees Visit the European Home of Liberty: Revolutionary Politics as Experienced by American Travelers, 1780-1815.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Selected Papers 1998: 53-70.

Abstract: An analysis of the accounts of two dozen American travelers in France between 1780 and 1815 demonstrates that partisan affiliation had little effect on their assessment of events. The records of Thomas Jefferson, Gouverneur Morris, and James Monroe, as well as lesser-known businessmen and tourists, demonstrate that although observers appreciated the significance of the French Revolution, enthusiasm soon diminished. Most felt that the French, lacking the necessary morality and democratic tradition, were not capable of following the American model. Travelers generally approved of reforms in the early stages of the revolution but criticized the excessive violence and extreme forms of egalitarianism that developed after August 1792. Revolutionary religious policy also provoked conflicting opinions, and declining Franco-American relations during the Directory and under Napoleon increased negative appraisals. * Period: 1780-1815.

Salvatore, Ricardo D. “North American Travel Narratives and the Ordering/Othering of South America (c.1810-1860).” Journal of Historical Sociology [Great Britain] 1996 9(1): 85-110.

Abstract: From the 1810's to 1860, North American authors of travel accounts engaged in a double construction of "South America": the othering typical of other travel narratives and the ordering of the diversity of the region's societies, economies, and polities according to gender, racial, and class categories. Describing social and institutional landscapes, authors projected preoccupations common to the expansive cultures of North America into "South America." Unable to homogenize the Other or naturalize the landscape, travelers used the space of the narrative to reflect upon the nature and future of "America." * Period: ca 1810-60.

Obeidat, Marwan M. “Observations in the East: A Bibliography of American Travel Accounts of the Muslim Near Orient before 1900.” Islam [Germany] 68 (1991): 115-125.

Abstract: Fascination with the Islamic Middle East in the 19th century spurred many Americans to travel there, and many published accounts of their experiences. The article examines the motivations (e.g., religion, adventure, scholarship) and preconceptions of these travelers, and the images their accounts conveyed, and prints a bibliography of nearly two hundred Middle Eastern travel accounts published in America in the 19th century. * Period: 19c.

Goluboff, Benjamin. “’Latent Preparedness’: Allusions in American Travel Literature on Britain.” American Studies 31 (1990): 65-82.

Abstract: Americans traveled in Great Britain during the 19th century with definite preconceptions about what they might find and see, a "latent preparedness." These American tourists in Britain then wrote narratives of their travels replete with allusions to the prestige and cultural superiority of the British. Such narratives, in turn, familiarized other Americans with this social, cultural, and physical terrain. * Period: 1805-1905.

Obeidat, Marwan A. “Lured by the Exotic Levant: The Muslim East to the American Traveller of the Nineteenth Century.” Islamic Quarterly [Great Britain] 1987 31(3): 167-193.

Abstract: The reading public in 19th-century America was eager for information about strange places, and travelers responded with accounts of the Near East which, however, did not go beyond preconceived ideas. Some writers responded with an enthusiastic romanticism, emphasizing the "exotic beauty" of the lands and peoples, while others concentrated more on what they saw as the barbarism and backwardness of the inhabitants, including Turks, Arabs, and the Christians of Jerusalem. Few of the travel accounts acquainted readers with the reality of peoples about whom the writers were ignorant, thereby allowing them to perpetuate stereotypes and more or less preconceived images.

Wilgus, A. Curtis. “South America Observed in the Nineteenth Century by Visitors from the United States.” Revista Interamericana [Puerto Rico] 4 (1974): 57-72.

Abstract: Twelve North American travel accounts from Wilgus's bibliography, Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (Scarecrow Press, 1973), demonstrate the usefulness of these sources for historians. These 19th-century travel accounts offer insights into South American politics, society, economics, and famous personalities. * Period: 19c.