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The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia.
Travel Writing: a Very Short Introduction
"This Very Short Introduction examines the meanings and uses of travel writing from its appearance on clay tablets to the digital age. It shows how the genre not only describes places and the journeys to them, but also communicates the cultural and personal values of its authors, reinforcing and challenging their sense of identity and of the foreign. Tim Youngs discusses questions of the genre's definition and its literary forms, the representation of self and other, the effect of modes of transport on authors' experiences and their stories of travel, and attitudes towards the environment. Throughout he demonstrates how travel writing is a diverse genre that offers a full range of perspectives, often alert to its own processes and viewpoints, and one that casts a critical eye on its authors' home countries as well as on their destinations." --Amazon.com
Travellers in Africa
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are re...
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
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Beastly Journeys
A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature.
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors’ introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.
Writing and Race
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- General editors' preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- 1 Introduction: Context and Motif -- 2 Philosophers among the savages -- 3 A monstrous race for possession. Discourses of monstrosity in The Tempest and early British America -- 4 Racial identity and self-invention in North America: the Red and the Black -- 5 Once upon a time in America: race, ethnicity and narrative remembrance -- 6 Appropriating a tradition: history and identity in the work of Maryse Condé -- 7 Race and the modernist aesthetic -- 8 White apes at the fin de siècle -- 9 Hunting the pederast: Richard Burton's exotic erotology -- 10 Alfred W. Howitt and Lorimer Fison: 'Victorian' ethnography and the gendered 'primitive' -- 11 The disappearing Other: exoticism and destruction in Jack London's South Sea writings -- 12 Modernity and racism -- Extracts -- Select bibliography -- Index
