A tourist's New England : travel fiction, 1820-1920

A tourist's New England : travel fiction, 1820-1920 / Dona Brown, editor.

Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Dona
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1999.
Series:Hardscrabble books
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century.
American fiction > 20th century.
American fiction > New England.
Travelers' writings, American.
Travelers > Fiction.
Travelers > New England > Fiction.
New England > Social life and customs > Fiction.
New England > Description and travel > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, from "Sketches from memory" (1835)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The ambitious guest" (1835)
  • Sarah Josephs Hale, "The romance of travelling" from Traits of American life (1835)
  • Susan Warner, from Nobody (1882)
  • Charles Dudley Warner, from Their pilgrimage (1886)
  • Emma Dunham Kelley, from Megda (1891)
  • Susan and Anna Warner, from The gold of Chickaree (1876)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Pink and white tyranny: a society novel (1871)
  • Edith Wharton, from Summer (1917)
  • Edward Bellamy, from Six to one: a Nantucket Idyl (1878)
  • Sarah Orne Jewett, from Deephaven (1877)
  • Thomas Nelson Page, "Miss Godwin's inheritance," Scribner's magazine (1904)
  • William Dean Howells, from The Vacation of the Kelwyns (1920)
  • Sinclair Lewis, from Babbitt (1922).

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