"The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrima…
"This book comprehensively explores the space of literary tourism and how literature can introduce, promote, and contribute to the awareness of cultural landmarks. Aimed not only at literature enthusiasts, but also at those who love to travel along less beaten paths, In the Poet…
This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing - the work of travelers from the world beyond Europe. [This text] collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English…
"Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references." "This anthology, stretching from …
This dissertation looks at images of Arabs produced by and for Americans, and it examines the meanings these images had for those who produced and consumed them. The research begins in 1850, when American images of Arabs, typically dervishes, dancers, giants, and acrobats, appea…