The Cambridge companion to travel writing

Author(s)

• Hulme, Peter
• Youngs, Tim

Bibliographic Information

The Cambridge companion to travel writing

edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs

（Cambridge companions to literature）

Cambridge University Press, 2002

• : hbk
• : pbk

Other Title

Companion to travel writing

Travel writing

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-318) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.

Table of Contents

• Introduction Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs
• 1. Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) William H. Sherman
• 2. The Grand Tour and after James Buzard
• 3. Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) Roy Bridges
• 4. Modernism and travel (1880-1940) Helen Carr
• 5. Travelling to write (1940-2000) Peter Hulme
• 6. The Middle East/Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' Billie Melman
• 7. South America/Amazonia: the forest of marvels Neil L. Whitehead
• 8. The Pacific/Tahiti: Queen of the south sea isles Rod Edmond
• 9. Africa/the Congo: the politics of darkness Tim Youngs
• 10. The Isles/Ireland: the wilder shore Glenn Hooper
• 11. India/Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night Kate Teltscher
• 12. The west/California: sites of the future Bruce Greenfield
• 13. Travel writing and gender Susan Bassnett
• 14. Travel writing and ethnography Joan Pau Rubies
• 15. Travel writing and its theory Mary Baine Campbell
• Chronology
• Further reading.

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• NCID: BA60018686
• ISBN:
  • 052178140X
  • 9780521786522
• LCCN: 2002023425
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: x, 343 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 820.9355
  • NDLC : KE174
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English prose literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : British -- Foreign countries -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Voyages and travels -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Travel writing -- History
  • LCSH : Travel in literature
  • LCSH : Travelers -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19147482