Includes bibliographical references and index Ronald PrimeauCritical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre / Ann Brigham: On American road literature Ronald Primeau: On American road literature Marilyn Judith Atlas: Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday Barry Alford: Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature John Rohrkemper: American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home Dominic Ording: Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road Ann Brigham: Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" Joseph J. Wydeven: Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris Richmond Adams: Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers Deborah Paes de Barros: Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions David Bain: The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic Christian Knoeller: Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" Caroline Maun: "The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate Maureen N. Eke: Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel Marybeth Pringle: "Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris Arvid F. Sponberg: Shoreline sansaras Phil Patton: Key to the highway: the road to the blues Steven K. Bailey: Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest Matthew Low.: A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday Ann Brigham: Critical meeting places: major approaches to the American road-narrative genre Marilyn Judith Atlas: Real, romantic, modern, and natural: midwestern hybridity and the Frank Booth illustrations in Theodore Dreiser's A Hoosier holiday Barry Alford: Baudrillard in the heartland: the construction of the midwest in American road literature John Rohrkemper: American odysseus: Mark Twain, travel, and the journey home Dominic Ording: Paradoxes along the beat journey in Kerouac's On the road Ann Brigham: Sinclair Lewis's Free air and the "voyage into democracy" Joseph J. Wydeven: Means and ends of the road in the works of Wright Morris Richmond Adams: Cormac McCarthy's second literary trilogy: Dreams of the fire and Our fathers Deborah Paes de Barros: Girls gone wild: American women's road narratives and literary traditions David Bain: The dark side of the road: American road narratives in the popular dark fantastic Christian Knoeller: Poetics of place in Roethke's "North American sequence" Caroline Maun: "The cost of this distance": Robert Fanning's American prophet and the failure to communicate Maureen N. Eke: Journeying down freedom road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel Marybeth Pringle: "Surprised to find itself in a tree in Chicago's suburbs": images of home and travel in the nonfiction of Mary Morris Arvid F. Sponberg: Shoreline sansaras Phil Patton: Key to the highway: the road to the blues Steven K. Bailey: Travel guidebooks, cultural narratives, and the American road quest Matthew Low.: A moving story: the recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai legend in the work of N. Scott Momaday |
