In America, travel has regularly been associated with romantic notions of freedom, exploration, and possibility. Focusing on a broad range of movement in the nineteenth century, this groundbreaking book challenges this conventional view, demonstrating the complexity of the politics of mobility in American culture. The texts that Mark Simpson consults are drawn from a wide range of genres and foreground social and cultural phenomena from slave revolt to fugitive escape, imperial expedition to neocolonial tourism, and market circulation to tramping protest. Utilizing works as diverse as Gray's...
In America, travel has regularly been associated with romantic notions of freedom, exploration, and possibility. Focusing on a broad range of movement...
Simpson (English, U. of Alberta, Canada) begins with a reading of the Confessions of Nat Turner and explores the legal discourse of human movement under the institution of slavery. Shifting to fictional discourses of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, he discusses the commercial power of travel narratives in the emergent capitalist publishing ind
Simpson (English, U. of Alberta, Canada) begins with a reading of the Confessions of Nat Turner and explores the legal discourse of human movement und...
