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This panel will examine the narrative of the road (tripper) often associated with Modernist accounts of travel. How does transatlantic literature, from the mid-nineteenth century forward, distinguish between travel and tourism? Should we interpret the mass-produced realist novel as a literary analogue to the culture of mass tourism that developed alongside it? Or does the realist novel too offer the potential to ‘go off the beaten track,’ to resist the tyranny of the predestined itinerary? Please send 300-500-word abstracts to lsimon@uvu.edu.