MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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245 04 $aThe Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 /$cedited, with an introduction, by Roger W. Hecht.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2003.
300 $axii, 169 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes travel accounts, poems, short stories, and novel excerpts.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-169).
505 0 $aIntroduction : Authoring the Erie / Roger W. Hecht -- [Selections from] -- "The Great Western canal" / Philip Freneau -- "Celebration of the grand canal" / Rev. Charles Giles -- Travels in North America / Basil Hall -- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman -- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens -- "The raging canal" ; popular song -- Their wedding journey / W.D. Howells -- David Harum / Edward Noyes Wescott -- Erie water / Walter D. Edmonds -- "Canal bride" / Samuel Hopkins Adams.
651 0 $aErie Canal (N.Y.)$vLiterary collections.
545 $aEditor was an Ithaca College faculty member (2003)
651 0 $aErie Canal (N.Y.)$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zNew York (State)$zErie Canal Region.
655 7 $aIthaca College authors.
700 1 $aHecht, Roger W.
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