The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.
The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (2007), Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (2013), and The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2016).
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Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Defining The Genre Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of 'Travel Writing' Travellers' Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing 3. Travel Writing Through the Ages An Overview The Ancient World Medieval Travellers and Travel Writing Early Modern Travel Writing The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1837 The Victorian and Edwardian Periods, 1837-1914 Travel Writing from 1914 to the Present 4. Reporting the World Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing Epistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gaining The Reader's Trust Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book 5. Revealing the Self Grand Tourists, Pilgrims and Questing Knights: Self-Fashioning in Addison's Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana (1596) Writing the Self: Travel Writing's Inward Turn The Imperious 'I'? 6. Representing the Other Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing and Neo-Colonialism Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's Colonialist Tendencies 7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Women Travellers and Colonialism Women's Travel Writing Today 8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations The Emergence of the Travel Blogosphere Environmentalism, Ecocriticism and Eco-Travel Writing Diversifying Travel Writing, Decolonising Travel Writing Studies Glossary Bibliography and Further Reading Index
Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Defining The Genre Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of 'Travel Writing' Travellers' Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing 3. Travel Writing Through the Ages An Overview The Ancient World Medieval Travellers and Travel Writing Early Modern Travel Writing The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1837 The Victorian and Edwardian Periods, 1837-1914 Travel Writing from 1914 to the Present 4. Reporting the World Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing Epistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gaining The Reader's Trust Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book 5. Revealing the Self Grand Tourists, Pilgrims and Questing Knights: Self-Fashioning in Addison's Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana (1596) Writing the Self: Travel Writing's Inward Turn The Imperious 'I'? 6. Representing the Other Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing and Neo-Colonialism Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's Colonialist Tendencies 7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Women Travellers and Colonialism Women's Travel Writing Today 8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations The Emergence of the Travel Blogosphere Environmentalism, Ecocriticism and Eco-Travel Writing Diversifying Travel Writing, Decolonising Travel Writing Studies Glossary Bibliography and Further Reading Index
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