Travel Writing

Höfundur: Carl Thompson (Útgáfa: 2)
Travel Writing

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The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day. Considering a wide range of primary sources from Sir Walter Raleigh to Jenny Diski, the extensively updated second edition: introduces the genre and outlines key debates within the field, such as gender, sexuality, postcolonial studies, and visual culture; explores the genre’s autobiographical dimensions and different approaches for depicting the self; surveys a range of canonical and more marginal works, featuring new discussion of refugee and migrant narratives and LGBTQ travel writing; includes a new chapter walking readers through the developments in the genre since the first edition, such as online forms, environmentalism and ecocriticism, and travel writing as an increasingly transnational, multicultural genre.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781040331446
Print ISBN
9781041298274
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Carl Thompson
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-04-11
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Defining the Genre
  • Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of ‘Travel Writing’
  • Travellers’ Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing
  • The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing
  • 3. Travel Writing Through the Ages
  • An Overview
  • The Ancient World
  • Medieval Travellers and Travel Writing
  • Early Modern Travel Writing
  • The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660–1837
  • The Victorian and Edwardian Periods, 1837–1914
  • Travel Writing from 1914 to the Present
  • 4. Reporting the World
  • Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing
  • Epistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gaining the Reader’s Trust
  • Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book
  • 5. Revealing the Self
  • Grand Tourists, Pilgrims and Questing Knights: Self-Fashioning in Addison’s Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596)
  • Writing the Self: Travel Writing’s Inward Turn
  • The Imperious ‘I’?
  • 6. Representing the Other
  • Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse
  • Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing and Neo-Colonialism
  • Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing’s Colonialist Tendencies
  • 7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality
  • Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing
  • Performing Femininity on the Page: Women’s Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Women Travellers and Colonialism
  • Women’s Travel Writing Today
  • 8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations
  • The Emergence of the Travel Blogosphere
  • Environmentalism, Ecocriticism and Eco-Travel Writing
  • Diversifying Travel Writing, Decolonising Travel Writing Studies
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index