Travel Writing

Auteur

Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (2007), Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (2013), and The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2016).

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The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.

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The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.

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Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Defining The Genre

Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of 'Travel Writing'

Travellers' Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing

The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing

3. 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

4. Reporting the World

Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing

Epistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gaining The Reader's Trust

Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book

5. 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'?

6. Representing the Other

Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse

Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing and Neo-Colonialism

Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's Colonialist Tendencies

7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality

Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing

Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Women Travellers and Colonialism

Women's Travel Writing Today

8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations

The Emergence of the Travel Blogosphere

Environmentalism, Ecocriticism and Eco-Travel Writing

Diversifying Travel Writing, Decolonising Travel Writing Studies

Glossary

Bibliography and Further Reading

Index