Bringing together original contributions from scholars around the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Author(s): Nandini Das, Tim Youngs (eds.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+640
List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors x
Introduction / Nandini Das and Tim Youngs 1
Part I. Travel Writing by Period 17
1. Travel Writing and the Ancient World / Jonathan S. Burgess 19
2. Medieval Travel Writing (1): Peregrinatio and Religious Travel Writing / Mary Baine Campbell 33
3. Medieval Travel Writing (2): Beyond the Pilgrimage / Sharon Kinoshita 48
4. Early Modern Travel Writing (1): Print and Early Modern European Travel Writing / Gerald Maclean 62
5. Early Modern Travel Writing (2): English Travel Writing / Nandini Das 77
6. Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing / Nigel Leask 93
7. Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing / Carl Thompson 108
8. Travel Writing after 1900 / Tim Youngs 125
Part II. Travel Writing in a Global Context 141
9. Arabic Travel Writing / Daniel L. Newman 143
10. Indian Travel Writing / Supriya Chaudhuri 159
11. Chinese Travel Writing / Xiaofei Tian 175
12. Travel Writing from Eastern Europe / Alex Drace-Francis 191
13. Italian Travel Writing / Nathalie C. Hester 206
14. Hispanic Travel Writing / Claire Lindsay 221
15. Travel Writing in French / Charles Forsdick 236
16. North American Travel Writing / Wendy Martin 252
17. Australian Travel Writing / Anna Johnston 267
18. African Travel Writing / Rebecca Jones 283
Part III. Perspectives on Travel writing 299
(I) Place and Travel Writing 300
19. Travel and the City / Victoria E. Thompson 301
20. Travel Writing and the Desert / Roslynn Haynes 315
21. Travel Writing and Rivers / Robert Burroughs 330
22. Travel and Mountains / Amrita Dhar 345
23. Polar Travel / Elizabeth Leane 361
24. Travelling in Wilderness / Debbie Lee 376
(II) Forms 391
25. Advice on the Art of Travel / Daniel Carey 392
26. Travelogues, Diaries, Letters / Zoë Kinsley 408
27. Travel Writing and Cartography / Jordana Dym 423
28. Travel and Poetry / Christopher M. Keirstead 442
29. Visual Images in Travel Writing / Stephanie Leitch 456
30. Travel and Fiction / Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa 474
31. Scientific Travel / Michael F. Robinson 488
32. Travel in the Digital Age / Paul Longley Arthur and Tom van Nuenen 504
(III) Approaching Travel Writing 519
33. Gender and Travel Writing / Robert Aldrich 520
34. Ecocriticism and Travel / Kylie Crane 535
35. Translation and Travel Writing / Susan Bassnett 550
36. Travel Writing and Tourism / Agnieszka Sobocinska and Richard White 565
Bibliography 581
Index 617
