Mountain Excursions Aesthetic Visions and The Antebellum Travel Narrative. This project overall attempts torecast Appalachian literature in terms of a lost tradition of texts that aregenerally out-of-print though of central importance to understanding thehistory of the region and its current environmental and cultural challenges.The epilogue will also consider the way that ecological-based literarycriticism offers a vital language for how antebellum travel writers sought toframe the region from a 19th-century environmental point of view. Thebook aims to resituate the field of Appalachian Studies to an earlier historicgenesis
