New Directions in Travel Writing Studies [electronic resource] /
Smethurst, Paul.editor.
Kuehn, Julia.editor.
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst -- PART I: TEXTUALITY -- 1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan / Steve Clark -- 2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing / Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski -- 3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature / Alex Watson -- PART II: TOPOLOGY -- 4. Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe / Joseph Gualtieri -- 5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall' / Peter Kitson -- 6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's "The Wild Places" and "The Old Ways" / Paul Smethurst -- PART III: MOBILITY -- 7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies / Charles Forsdick --
8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious / Caitlin Vandertop -- 9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel / Tim Youngs -- PART IV: MAPPING -- 10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent / Vanessa Collingridge -- 11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory / Otto Heim -- 12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of "Mexico, This Month" / Claire Lindsay -- PART V: ALTERITY -- 13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850 / Wendy Bracewell -- 14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell / Graham Huggan --
15. Travel and Utopia / Bill Ashcroft -- 16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878 / Julia Kuehn -- 17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa / Maureen Moynagh -- 18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860 / Laurence Williams.
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
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