Travel Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415444644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Thompson Carl

Opis

In this volume Carl Thompson introduces travel writing as a genre and addresses issues of space, language, colonialism, globalization and politics as well as looking at how travel writing offers a movement between the familiar and the 'other' or unknown.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Defining the Genre  Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of Travel Writing  Traveller’s Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing  The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing  2. 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  3. Reporting the World  Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing  Shifting Protocols of Authentication and Plausibility  Authority and Factuality in the Modern Travel Book  4. 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’  5. Representing the Other  Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse  Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing in a Post/Neo-Colonial Era  6. Questions of Gender and Sexuality  Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing  Women’s Travel Writing in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries: Performing Femininity on the Page  Women Travellers and Colonialism  Women’s Travel Writing Today

O autorze

Carl Thompson is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University.