American Road Literature

Critical Insights: American Road Literature
	Contents
	About This Volume
	On American Road Literature
	Critical Contexts
		Critical Meeting Places: Major Approaches to the American Road Narrative Genre
		Real, Romantic, Modern, and Natural: Midwestern Hybridity and the Frank Booth Illustrations in Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday
		Baudrillard in the Heartland: The Construction of the Midwest in American Road Literature
		American Odysseus: Mark Twain, Travel, and the Journey Home
	Critical Readings
		Paradoxes along the Beat Journey in Kerouac’s On the Road
		Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air and the “Voyage into Democracy”
		Means and Ends of the Road in the Works of Wright Morris
		Cormac McCarthy’s Second Literary Trilogy: Dreams of the Fire and Our Fathers
		Girls Gone Wild: American Women’s Road Narratives and Literary Tradition
		The Dark Side of the Road: American Road Narratives in the Popular Dark Fantastic
		Poetics of Place in Roethke’s “North American Sequence”
		“The Cost of This Distance”: Robert Fanning’s American Prophet and the Failure to Communicate
		Journeying Down Freedom Road: The Underground Railroad and the Narrative of Travel
		“Surprised to Find Itself in a Tree in the Chicago Suburbs”: Images of Home and Travel in the Nonfiction of Mary Morris
		Shoreline Sansaras
		Key to the Highway: The Road in the Blues
		Travel Guidebooks, Cultural Narratives, and the American Road Quest
		A Moving Story: The Recurrence of the Kiowa Tsoai Legend in the Work of N. Scott Momaday
	Resources
		Additional Works on American Road Literature
		Bibliography
		About the Editor
		Contributors
		Index