Download or read book Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel written by Robin Jarvis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarvis addresses a significant gap in modern scholarship on travel writing: its contemporary reception. Drawing on formal reviews, journals, letters, autobiographies, commonplace books and marginalia, Jarvis analyses the impact made by travel books on North America during an era of transatlantic strife. Attentive to the role of the periodical press, his book is also the first serious exploration of private reading experiences of travel literature in the Romantic period.