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Seekers of Scenery : Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia by Kevin O'Donnell (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press
ISBN-101572332786
ISBN-139781572332782
eBay Product ID (ePID)30476353
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeekers of Scenery : Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia
Number of Pages424 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / General, Regional Studies, Essays & Travelogues, United States / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Social Science, History
AuthorKevin O'donnell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight24.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-012275
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal917.4
SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, American travelers began to discover southern Appalachia and to define it within mainstream American culture. As a result, American periodicals from national publications such as Harper s and The Atlantic Monthly to smaller circulation magazines such as DeBow s and The Lakeside Monthly published a great deal about the region, which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Eighteen articles, culled from this body of literature including work by Rebecca Harding Davis, W. E. B. DuBois, and Constance Fenimore Woolson make up this volume. Some passages now read as environmental elegy: descriptions of old-growth forests long since cut, waterfalls now dammed, vistas now hidden behind pollution on high ridges. A variety of genres present a historic view of the region, as well as providing insight into the construction of travel writing in the nineteenth century. For readers interested in the history and culture of the region, these articles offer a glimpse of the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the region as we now know it. They describe economic and domestic practices in the 1800s; show how the image of the mountaineer a distinct, white, southern Appalachian archetype emerged in the national consciousness; and detail the development of the region during a crucial period. The volume contains helpful glosses and explanatory notes, while maps aid twenty-first-century travelers in following nineteenth-century travel routes. In addition, the book is beautifully illustrated with many woodblock engravings. Contributors: George Cooke, Charles Lanman, Oliver Bell Bunce, Julian Ralph, Bradford Torrey, David Hunter Strother, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dudley Warner, William Wallace Harney, Louise Coffin Jones, James Lane Allen, Lee Meriwether, Margaret Johann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jehu Lewis, George Dimmock, Frank O. Carpenter Kevin O Donnell is associate professor of English at East Tennessee State University and is director of that school s writing-across-the-curriculum program. Helen Hollingsworth is professor emerita of English at East Tennessee State University. She has contributed articles to Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and Change, and The Highlands Bulletin.", During the nineteenth century, American travelers began to "discover" southern Appalachia and to define it within mainstream American culture. As a result, American periodicals--from national publications such as Harper's and The Atlantic Monthly to smaller circulation magazines such as DeBow's and The Lakeside Monthly--published a great deal about the region, which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Eighteen articles, culled from this body of literature--including work by Rebecca Harding Davis, W. E. B. DuBois, and Constance Fenimore Woolson--make up this volume. Some passages now read as environmental elegy: descriptions of old-growth forests long since cut, waterfalls now dammed, vistas now hidden behind pollution on high ridges. A variety of genres present a historic view of the region, as well as providing insight into the construction of travel writing in the nineteenth century. For readers interested in the history and culture of the region, these articles offer a glimpse of the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the region as we now know it. They describe economic and domestic practices in the 1800s; show how the image of the "mountaineer"--a distinct, white, southern Appalachian archetype--emerged in the national consciousness; and detail the development of the region during a crucial period. The volume contains helpful glosses and explanatory notes, while maps aid twenty-first-century travelers in following nineteenth-century travel routes. In addition, the book is beautifully illustrated with many woodblock engravings. Contributors: George Cooke, Charles Lanman, Oliver Bell Bunce, Julian Ralph, Bradford Torrey, David Hunter Strother, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dudley Warner, William Wallace Harney, Louise Coffin Jones, James Lane Allen, Lee Meriwether, Margaret Johann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jehu Lewis, George Dimmock, Frank O. Carpenter Kevin O'Donnell is associate professor of English at East Tennessee State University and is director of that school's writing-across-the-curriculum program. Helen Hollingsworth is professor emerita of English at East Tennessee State University. She has contributed articles to Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and Change, and The Highlands Bulletin.
LC Classification NumberF217.A65S44 2004
