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Treating the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson as an autobiographical text, this book establishes that his years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought, particularly his conception of self-reliance and the heroic ideal.

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A study of American women¿s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narrat...

This work offers a journey through the experiences of migrating women in America. The collection of narratives - both real and imagined - represent a range of personal and critical perspectives, some of the women describe their travels as freeing, whilst other relate the costs of relocating.

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A study of American women¿s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narrat...

An anthology of diverse narratives that theorize on the reasons people travel, with essays by Gloria Anzaldía, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, Hélène Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward W. Said, and Thayer ScudderTravel, move...