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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bachin, Robin F

Titel

“I’ll Picturesque It Everywhere”: The Market Revolution, Print Culture, and the Commodification of Travel in America

Ist Teil von

• Reviews in American history, 2020-03, Vol.48 (1), p.20-26

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Where early geographical text authors like Morse dedicated themselves to painstakingly collecting and presenting geographical knowledge for the common good, new guidebook producers focused more on regional economic boosterism. In the 1820s, as a new network of turnpikes and the proliferation of stagecoaches and then railroad lines knitted regions together, more and more Americans ventured out on pleasure excursions, searching out natural landscapes and fashionable tours. Where during the 1815 trip Richardson was responsible for plotting every route, navigating every passage, securing every place of lodging, and negotiating with individual proprietors along the way, he later “recorded his trip as a series of transactions in which he bought travel itself, represented as an abstraction by slips of paper purchased from sales agents.” [...]the narrator says that, after leaving Utica, she thought of more questions to ask the man about traveling to the Falls, but discovered that he had left the group.