Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900

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Kevin E. O'Donnell, Helen Hollingsworth
Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2004 - 385 pagina's

During the nineteenth century, American travelers began to "discover" southern Appalachia and to define it within mainstream American culture. As a result, American periodicals--from national publications such as Harper's and The Atlantic Monthly to smaller circulation magazines such as DeBow's and The Lakeside Monthly--published a great deal about the region, which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

Eighteen articles, culled from this body of literature--including work by Rebecca Harding Davis, W. E. B. DuBois, and Constance Fenimore Woolson--make up this volume. Some passages now read as environmental elegy: descriptions of old-growth forests long since cut, waterfalls now dammed, vistas now hidden behind pollution on high ridges. A variety of genres present a historic view of the region, as well as providing insight into the construction of travel writing in the nineteenth century.

For readers interested in the history and culture of the region, these articles offer a glimpse of the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the region as we now know it. They describe economic and domestic practices in the 1800s; show how the image of the "mountaineer"--a distinct, white, southern Appalachian archetype--emerged in the national consciousness; and detail the development of the region during a crucial period.

The volume contains helpful glosses and explanatory notes, while maps aid twenty-first-century travelers in following nineteenth-century travel routes. In addition, the book is beautifully illustrated with many woodblock engravings.

Contributors: George Cooke, Charles Lanman, Oliver Bell Bunce, Julian Ralph, Bradford Torrey, David Hunter Strother, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dudley Warner, William Wallace Harney, Louise Coffin Jones, James Lane Allen, Lee Meriwether, Margaret Johann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jehu Lewis, George Dimmock, Frank O. Carpenter

Kevin O'Donnell is associate professor of English at East Tennessee State University and is director of that school's writing-across-the-curriculum program. Helen Hollingsworth is professor emerita of English at East Tennessee State University. She has contributed articles to Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and Change, and The Highlands Bulletin.

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SCENERY MARKETS
1
HABERSHAM CO TALLULAH GORGE TOCCOA FALLS
41
ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
59
From THE INDUSTRIAL REGION OF NORTHERN
71
A WEEK ON WALDENS RIDGE I BY BRADFORD TORREY
83
WRITERS
97
BALD MOUNTAIN YANCEY CO NC SPIVEY CREEK
100
THE FRENCH BROAD BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE
131
THROUGH CUMBERLAND GAP ON HORSEBACK
249
MOUNTAIN LIFE IN TENNESSEE BY LEE MERIWETHER
275
A LITTLE MOONSHINER BY MARGARET JOHANN
285
A NEGRO SCHOOLMASTER IN THE NEW SOUTH
295
THE GRANDFATHER OF NORTH CAROLINA BY JEHU LEWIS
307
A TRIP TO MT MITCHELL IN NORTH CAROLINA
319
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS AND THUNDERHEAD PEAK
331
NOTES
341

ASHEVILLE ALEXANDER WARM SPRINGS
133
THE YARES OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS
173
ON HORSEBACK II BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
193
A STRANGE LAND AND A PECULIAR PEOPLE
217

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