Perspectives on travel writing
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Bibliographic Information
Perspectives on travel writing
(Studies in European cultural transition / general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker, v. 19)
Ashgate, c2004
- : alk. paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs
- Defining travel: on the travel book, travel writing, and terminology, Jan Borm
- 'As mannerly and civil as any of Europe': early modern travel writing and the exploration of the English self, Helga Quadflieg
- 'Not absolutely a native, nor entirely a stranger': the Journeys of Anne Grant, Betty Hagglund
- The Saxon in Ireland: John Hervey Ashworth on the emigrant trail, Glenn Hooper
- Animals as figures of otherness in Victorian narratives of travel in Brittany, 1840-95, Jean-Yves Le Disez
- 'The silent language of the face': the perception of indigenous difference in travel writing about the Caribbean, Peter Hulme
- Night train to Belo Horizonte: South American travels, Erdmute Wenzel White
- Between gender and genre: the travels of Estella Canziani, Loredana Polezzi
- Varieties of nostalgia in contemporary travel writing, Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan
- Mediaeval travel in postcolonial times: Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, Padmini Mongia
- Where are we going? Cross-border approaches to travel writing, Tim Youngs
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
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