Sentence:  ...this need to recover earlier modes of journeying emerges differently from the works of the dominant French-language travel writers - and this can be seen in particular in contributions to their 1992 manifesto, "Pour une littérature voyageuse", which are marked by a sense of self- investiture as well as by attempts to elaborate aristocratic modes of travel in which the individual sensibility of a sovereign self eclipses the effects of  tourism and mass travel; there is a search for micro- deserts of untainted otherness open to the solitary traveller alone, a sense of what Jean-Didier Urbain calls the <WSD>'agoraphilia</WSD>' that privileges distant journeys to the detriment of travels closer to hand. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The love of the exotic and new.