The American Open Road: Narrative and Popular Imagination

The rearview mirror perspective of a road trip across the American ＂open road＂

Jeffrey Alan Melton is professor of American studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement, winner of the 2001 Elizabeth Agee Prize, and co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader.