Overview

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries, travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences. An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: • Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture • Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures • Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism • Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world. Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study.

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Author:   Carl Thompson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.852kg
ISBN:  

9780367365295

ISBN 10:   0367365294
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   03 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Key Debates and Critical Approaches 1. Truth, Lies and Travel Writing, Daniel Carey 2. Inner Journeys: Travel Writing as Life Writing, Simon Cooke 3. Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies, Claire Lindsay 4. Travel Writing and Gender, Dúnlaith Bird 5. Travel Writing and Sexuality: Queering the Genre, Churnjeet Mahn 6. Travel Writing and Ethics, Corinne Fowler 7. Travel and the Body: Corporeality, Speed and Technology, Charles Forsdick 8. Travel Writing and Visual Culture, Margaret Topping 9. Travel Writing: Reception and Readership, Robin Jarvis Part 2. Historical Overviews 10. Travel Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean, William Hutton 11. Chinese Travel Writing, James M. Hargett 12. Indian Travel Writing, Shobhana Bhattacharji 13. Arabic Travel Writing, to 1916, Nabil Matar 14. European Travel Writing in the Middle Ages, Anthony Bale 15. Western Travel Writing, 1450-1750, Matthew Day 16. Western Travel Writing, 1750-1950, Barbara Korte 17. African Travel Writing, Aedín Ní Loingsigh 18. Travel Writing Now, 1950 to the Present Day, Carl Thompson Part 3. Styles, Modes, Themes 19. Pilgrims, Laura Nenzi 20. Discoverers and Explorers, Paul Smethurst 21. Travellers and Tourists, Zoë Kinsley 22. Picturesque Travel: The Aesthetics and Politics of Landscape, Elizabeth A. Bohls 23. Guidebooks, Scott Laderman 24. The Romantic Literary Travel Book, C.W. Thompson 25. Modernist Travel Writing, David Farley 26. Postmodernizing Travel Writing, Manfred Pfister 27. Travel Blogs, Kate Douglas and Kylie Cardell 28. Dark Tourism, Justin D. Edwards 29. Gay Travel Writing: An Unstable Category? Gregory Woods Part 4 Imagined Geographies 30. Ultima Thule / The North, Graham Huggan 31. Europe, Wendy Bracewell 32. North America / USA, Susan L. Roberson 33. Latin America, Jennifer Hayward 34. The Middle East, Eva Johanna Holmberg 35. India / South Asia, Tabish Khair 36. China, Julia Kuehn 37. Australia, Richard White and Justine Greenwood 38. Sub-Saharan Africa, Laura E. Franey 39. The Polar Regions, Janice Cavell 40. Deserts, Rune Graulund 41. Mountains, Simon Bainbridge 42. The Sea, Steve Mentz

Reviews

Readers of this volume will be transported away from a cosy middle-class voyeuristic observation of travel into a serious new world, which offers new perspectives and insights into travel writing. This is a welcome addition to a respected series of volumes, which aim to throw new light on familiar topics. Having approached this volume with the feeling that I was entering familiar territory, I soon realised that the journey had only just begun. With its excellent bibliographies and wealth of references, the way is well signposted. - Diana Dixon, Freelance reviewer and Editor Local Studies Librarian, Oakham, UK

Readers of this volume will be transported away from a cosy middle-class voyeuristic observation of travel into a serious new world, which offers new perspectives and insights into travel writing. This is a welcome addition to a respected series of volumes, which aim to throw new light on familiar topics. Having approached this volume with the feeling that I was entering familiar territory, I soon realised that the journey had only just begun. With its excellent bibliographies and wealth of references, the way is well signposted. - Diana Dixon, Freelance reviewer and Editor Local Studies Librarian, Oakham, UK

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Carl Thompson is a reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.

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