
Driving Lessons
A Road Trip Through American Travel Literature
Christopher B. Strain(Author)
The University of Alabama Press
Published on 31. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8173-6199-0 (ISBN)
Description
""Driving Lessons: A Road Trip through American Travel Literature" by Christopher B. Strain is a study of American travel literature, specifically a reflection on the tradition of the American road trip. Strain sets out to understand what makes this custom a prototypically American one, who travels, and why, through considerations of race, class, and gender. "Driving Lessons" not only contextualizes earlier American travel narratives, but also shows how these journeys of national discovery and personal redemption still resonate with readers and scholars. The book deftly blends together the story of the author's own four-month sojourn in an old van with the analysis of his literary predecessors' travel narratives"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
10 B&W figures
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-6199-0 (9780817361990)
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03/2025
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€89.99
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Person
Christopher B. Strain is professor of American Studies at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of four other books, most recently The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973.