From Home and Abroad: American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910

Product Description
This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers―four British and seventeen American―who visited Philadelphia. Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia.

Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.
Review
the delight of From Home and Abroad is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College ―
The Philadelphia Inquirer

...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College


...this scholarly handbook will no doubt be greeted enthusiastically by students of the literature of the United States. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College


the delight of From Home and Abroad
is not its fleeting sociology but its thought-provoking vignettes.. -- Dominic V. O'Brien, Ursinus College ―
The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author
John J. Burke is Associate Professor of English at St. Joseph's University.