Perspectives on travel writing

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Appropriately the contributors to this volume are scholars working within the broad area of travel writing. Their essays demonstrate that travel writing embraces many interests and themes and that it is a form that seems especially suited to the notion of transition in all of its guises.

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Perspectives on travel writing / edited by Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Aldershot, Hants, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 200 pages : : illustrations, 1 map ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0754603660, 9780754603665
oclc:ocm52471605
LC Classification:G151
Dewey Decimal:808/.06691

Introduction / Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs -- Defining travel: on the travel book, travel writing and terminology / Jan Borm -- 'As mannerly and civill [sic] as any of Europe': early modern travel writing and the exploration of the English self / Helga Quadflieg -- 'Not absolutely a native, nor entirely a stranger': the journeys of Anne Grant / Betty Hagglund -- The Saxon in Ireland: John Hervey Ashworth on the emigrant trail / Glenn Hooper -- Animals as figures of otherness in travel narrative of Brittany, 1840-1895 / Jean-Yves Le Disez -- 'The silent language of the face': the perception of indigenous difference in travel writing about the Caribbean / Peter Hulme -- Night train to Belo Horizonte: South American travels / Erdmute Wenzel White -- Between gender and genre: the travels of Estella Canziani / Loredana Polezzi -- Varieties of nostalgia in contemporary travel writing / Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan -- Mediaeval travel in postcolonial times: Amitav Ghosh's In an antique land / Padmini Mongia -- Where are we going? Cross-border approaches to travel writing / Tim Youngs.

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Écrits de voyageurs européens Europeanen Récits de voyages Reiseliteratur Reisverhalen Travel in literature Travel writing Travelers' writings Travelers' writings, European travelog (performed works genre) Voyage -- Art d'écrire Voyage dans la littérature