| Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity Subjects: United States -- Description and travel -- Sources; Southern States -- Description and travel -- Sources; National characteristics American -- History -- Sources; United States -- Civilization -- 1783–1865 -- Sources; Travelers’ writings American; Trave; Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers' diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study. JOHN D. COX is an assistant professor of English at Georgia College & State University. He also serves as the associate director of the Center for Georgia Studies and the assistant editor of the Flannery O'Connor Review . |