Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys Toward French and American Selfhood

by Lloyd S. Kramer

Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Delving into the experiences of renowned figures like Flora Tristan and Margaret Fuller alongside lesser-known postrevolutionary travelers, this book illuminates how cross-cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469682389
• ISBN13: 9781469682389
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"