Geology and Genre in Woolson’s Southern Travel Sketches
The rapid growth of tourism in the South during the 1870s was part of a larger national and international trend, as travel became more affordable and accessible to the middle classes. During this era, the tourist industry encouraged, and was encouraged by, a proliferation of travel writing of all ki...
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| Published in | Witness to Reconstruction p. 129 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University Press of Mississippi
18.07.2011
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| Summary: | The rapid growth of tourism in the South during the 1870s was part of a larger national and international trend, as travel became more affordable and accessible to the middle classes. During this era, the tourist industry encouraged, and was encouraged by, a proliferation of travel writing of all kinds, notably guidebooks and illustrated magazine pieces. With the advent of guidebooks came the response that such guides offered merely a set of clichés interfering with the authentic experience of travel.¹ Illustrated magazine writing about the South after the Civil War saw additional generic complications, as the primarily information-oriented journalism of |
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| ISBN: | 1617030252 9781617030253 |
| DOI: | 10.14325/mississippi/9781617030253.003.0008 |