The art of travel : essays on travel writing

Author(s)

• Dodd, Philip

Bibliographic Information

The art of travel : essays on travel writing

edited by Philip Dodd

Frank Cass, 1982

Note

Includes bibliographical references

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Contents of Works

• "Tis not to divert the reader" / Jenny Mezciems
• The voyages of Jerónimo Lobo, Joachim Le Grand, and Samuel Johnson / Joel J. Gold
• A semi-mental journey / Peter Miles
• "Terra incognita" / F.S. Schwarzbach
• The spectacle of reality in Sea and Sardinia / Margery Sabin
• Debunking the jungle / Martin Stannard
• The views of travellers / Philip Dodd
• Authorial voice in V.S. Naipaul's The middle passage / John Thieme
• Travel writing, Victorian and modern / Joanne Shattock

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer, who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 "'Tis not to divert the Reader": Moral and Literary Determinants in some Early Travel Narratives
• Chapter 2 The Voyages of Jeronimo Lobo, Joachim Le Grand, and Samuel Johnson
• Chapter 3 A Semi-Mental Journey: Structure and Illusion in Smollett's Travels
• Chapter 4 ::
• Chapter 5 The Spectacle of Reality in Sea and Sardinia
• Chapter 6 Debunking the Jungle: The Context of Evelyn Waugh's Travel Books 1930-9, MARTINSTANNARD
• Chapter 7 The Views of Travellers: Travel Writing in the 1930s
• Chapter 8 Authorial Voice in V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage
• Chapter 9 Travel Writing Victorian and Modern: A Review of Recent Research

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA27605141
• ISBN:
  • 0714632058
• LCCN: 83134937
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London, England ; Totowa, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: 164 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR756.T72
  • DC19 : 809/.93355
  • LCC : PR409.T7
  • DC19 : 820.9/355
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : British -- Travel -- Historiography
  • LCSH : English prose literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Voyages and travels -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Travel in literature
  • LCSH : Travelers -- History
  • LCSH : Travel writing -- History
  • LCSH : British -- Foreign countries -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
  • FREE : English literature