id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt t148ff39r7s Jake McGinnis Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum U.S. Travel Writing and Environmental Thinking 2022 .txt text/plain 274 7 20 This dissertation examines American literary travel writing published from 1835-1862, a period during which changing environmental and social conditions began to reshape traditional narrative forms. While the modern tourism industry began to emerge, ushering in a proliferation of travel writing in books, periodicals, and guidebooks, some authors considered the more disturbing or unsettling elements of travel, experimenting with digressions, fragmentation, shifts in genre, and surprising breaks in readers' expectations in order to depict and to enact a disturbance to one's more established sense of the world. cache/t148ff39r7s.txt txt/t148ff39r7s.txt