 | Crossing the Atlantic Subjects: Travel writing; Women travelers; Travelers'' writings German; Travelers'' writings American; Travel writing; Travel writing; Travel writing; Travel writing; " . . . travel as an exploration of 'the other' which becomes an exploration of the self . . . a confirmation of identity."--from the Introduction, by Frank Trommler In an age when travel was more difficult but leisure was more available, those who journeyed across the Atlantic from the Old World to America or back created a wonderful literature about the divergent cultures and the fertile interactions among them. In travel diaries, journals, novels, journalistic reports, and guide books, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers recorded impressions and ruminations that not only offer opportunities for comparison and contrast but also shed light on the processes of modernization and the future that would emerge on both sides of the Atlantic.
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