Colonizer Abroad

Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville Richard Henry Dana Jr. Mark Twain Charles Warren Stoddard and Jack London--The Colonizer Abroad claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.