A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42959-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages.
Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróz was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podrózy, and then by the reportaz podrózniczy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moroz, Grzegorz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Westslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1

Travel Writing Genres in Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

1 Travel Writing and Genres; Theories, Taxonomies and Perspectives

1 An Overview of Anglophone and Polish Travel Writing Taxonomies

2 Pan-European Dichotomies and Affinities

3 Explaining Generic Tools Selected to Approach Travel Writing Diachronically

2 Anglophone and Polish Travel Writing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

1 Neo-Latin Tradition and Its Influence on English and Polish Travel Writing

2 From the Ars Apodemica to the Grand Tour

3 Polish and English Travel Writing in the Vernacular in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

3 The Crucial Eighteenth Century: the Birth of the Genres of the Travel Book and the Podróz

4 Travel Books and Podróze in the Nineteenth Century

1 British Romantic Travel Writing

2 Polish Romantic Travel Writing

3 British and American Travel Books in the Victorian Period

4 The ‘Generic Shift’ in Polish Travel Writing of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

PART 2

Two Case Studies of the Travel Narratives of Four British and Polish Twentieth- Century Travel Writers5 Parallaxes of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Ryszard Kapuscinski

6 Belated Grand Tourists: Aldous Huxley and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewcz

1 Aldous Huxley’s Along the Road as a Travel Book

2 Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and His Italian Travels

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grzegorz Moroz, Ph.D. (1960), University of Bialystok, is Professor of British Literature at that university. He has published monographs and many articles on Aldous Huxley and on Anglophone travel writing including Travellers, Novelists and Gentlemen: Constructing Male Narrative Personae in British Travel Books, from the Beginnings to the Second World War (Peter Lang, 2013).