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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