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The working traveler :Perception, knowledge, and exchange in nineteenth-century American travel literature (Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The working traveler :
Reminder of title:	Perception, knowledge, and exchange in nineteenth-century American travel literature (Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams).
Author:	Pumphrey, Stephanie Ann.
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Philip Fisher.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1660.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Literature, American.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3091663
ISBN:	0496393723

The working traveler :Perception, knowledge, and exchange in nineteenth-century American travel literature (Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams).
Pumphrey, Stephanie Ann.

The working traveler :Perception, knowledge, and exchange in nineteenth-century American travel literature (Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams). [electronic resource] - 232 p.

Adviser: Philip Fisher.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2003.

Discussions of nineteenth-century American travel writing have concentrated on the figure of the leisure traveler, figuring him or her as an amateur anthropologist, and therefore subject to the same critiques: that his/her perceptions are colored by predetermined categories and personal agendas despite being presented as objective or unmediated. Indeed, to travel was to take part in a highly organized ritual of nineteenth-century culture: a set of conventions and expectations based on guidebooks and previous travel narratives dictated the traveler's experience. To consider travel as a hybrid of ethnography and mass tourism is to fail to recognize one of the most significant properties of travel, though: that being an outsider can allow for a certain clarity of vision, even while it introduces bias in the form of expectations and self-interest. Nineteenth-century American travel narratives are populated by individuals who travel for work rather than leisure, from the sailors of Melville, Dana, and Cooper to the artists of Hawthorne and early Henry James to the diplomats of Henry Adams and Henry James's later novels. Because work necessitates exchange with the "other," working traveler narratives concern themselves with epistemological and perceptual alternatives. For the sailor, knowledge is a matter of initiation into a world of skill. For the artist, knowledge is derived from aesthetic considerations. For the diplomat, knowledge is worldly, contested, and always incomplete. For all three forms of working traveler, the structures of work offer a kind of perceptual correction, a means of generating alternative versions of experience.

ISBN: 0496393723Subjects--Topical Terms:

212571
Literature, American.

The working traveler :Perception, knowledge, and exchange in nineteenth-century American travel literature (Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams).
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