The wonder of travel
Subtitle: fiction, tourism and the social construction of the nostalgic
By: Ralph Pordzik.
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 344; Anglistische Forschungen -- Heft 344.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- History and criticism.; Travel in literature.; Nostalgia in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Victorian culture and the refashioning of late Romantic travel writing; title: England's domestic others : the touristic construction of agriculture and landscape in William Cobbett's Rural rides (1830); title: Orientalism reconsidered yet again : Alexander Kinglake's Eothen (1844) and the discourse of Eastern travel; title: Arrested memories : pre-colonial nostalgia and exoticism in the travel writing of Robert Cunninghame Graham; title: The imperial theme and the domestic traveller : Gissing's The private papers of Henry Ryecroft; title: Snares that cannot fail : 'critical' tourism and the response to modernity in E.M. Forster's A room with a view; title: Travel writing and its discontents : culture, tourism and the dynamics of narration in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia; title: Towards a general theory of travel : Bruce Chatwin, literary nomadism and the cannibalistic ritual of the text; title: Travelling in alternative worlds : tourism, fiction and the new cultural geography.