SPACE, MOVEMENT, AND SUBJECTIVITY IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE
This article analyzes the artistic and narrative functions of transport vehicles in 19th-century American travel literature. Using the
works of Mark Twain and Henry James as examples, it examines how steamboats, trains, stagecoaches, and sea vessels
influenced narrative dynamics, spatial representation, and the formation of subjective perception. Employing literary studies
methods based on qualitative analysis, the research identifies the aesthetic, structural, and symbolic significance of transport
means. Vehicles in 19th-century American travel literature appear not merely as technical instruments, but as central poetic
mechanisms that shape narrative rhythm and the author’s perspective. This approach allows for a reinterpretation of travel
literature as a complex cultural phenomenon intrinsically linked to space, movement, and self-perception
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