During the nineteenth century, American travelers began to
"discover" southern Appalachia and to define it within mainstream
American culture. As a result, American periodicals-from national
publications such as Harper's and The Atlantic Monthly to smaller
circulation magazines such as DeBow's and The Lakeside
Monthly-published a great deal about the region, which encompasses
parts of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
Eighteen articles, culled from this body of literature-including
work by Rebecca Harding Davis, W. E. B. DuBois, and Constance
Fenimore Woolson-make up this volume. Some passages now read as
environmental elegy: descriptions of old-growth forests long since
cut, waterfalls now dammed, vistas now hidden behind pollution on
high ridges. A variety of genres present a historic view of the
region, as well as providing insight into the construction of
travel writing in the nineteenth century. For readers interested in
the history and culture of the region, these articles offer a
glimpse of the social, economic, and political forces that shaped
the region as we now know it. They describe economic and domestic
practices in the 1800s; show how the image of the "mountaineer"-a
distinct, white, southern Appalachian archetype-emerged in the
national consciousness; and detail the development of the region
during a crucial period. The volume contains helpful glosses and
explanatory notes, while maps aid twenty-first-century travelers in
following nineteenth-century travel routes. In addition, the book
is beautifully illustrated with many woodblock engravings.
Contributors: George Cooke, Charles Lanman, Oliver Bell Bunce,
Julian Ralph, Bradford Torrey, David Hunter Strother, Constance
Fenimore Woolson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dudley Warner,
William Wallace Harney, Louise Coffin Jones, James Lane Allen, Lee
Meriwether, Margaret Johann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jehu Lewis, George
Dimmock, Frank O. Carpenter Kevin O'Donnell is associate professor
of English at East Tennessee State University and is director of
that school's writing-across-the-curriculum program. Helen
Hollingsworth is professor emerita of English at East Tennessee
State University. She has contributed articles to Appalachia Inside
Out: Conflict and Change, and The Highlands Bulletin.
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