Thompson The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-134-10521-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing is both the ideal springboard for beginners new to the genre and an important resource for established researchers. Covering a broad range of historical, theoretical and cultural contexts for the study of travel writing, and combining critical surveys with close readings of individual travelogues, the volume provides a prospectus to the genre that reflects the very latest thinking in the field.

The Companion’s four sections look in turn at:

- Key Debates & Critical Approaches – summarizing crucial debates in the field, and exploring a range of critical methodologies relevant to the study of travel writing

- Historical Overviews – offering a chronological guide to the travel writing of different periods and cultures

- Styles, Modes, Themes – providing more detailed analysis of a range of sub-genres and topics within travel writing

- Imagined Geographies – focusing on travel writing’s depiction, and imaginative mediation, of different regions and topographies around the world.

Covering all the relevant topics and debates, from postcolonial studies and issues of gender and sexuality to visual culture, the travelling body and questions of reception and readership, this is an essential overview of the current state of travel writing studies, which will encourage the field to move in new and exciting directions.

Contributors: Simon Bainbridge, Anthony Bale, Dúnlaith Bird, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Elizabeth A. Bohls, Wendy Bracewell, Kylie Cardell, Daniel Carey, Janice Cavell, Simon Cooke, Matthew Day, Kate Douglas, Justin D. Edwards, David Farley, Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler, Laura E. Franey, Rune Graulund, Justine Greenwood, James M. Hargett, Jennifer Hayward, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Graham Huggan, William Hutton, Robin Jarvis, Tabish Khair, Zoë Kinsley, Barbara Korte, Julia Kuehn, Scott Laderman, Claire Lindsay, Churnjeet Mahn, Nabil Matar, Steve Mentz, Laura Nenzi, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Manfred Pfister, Susan L. Roberson, Paul Smethurst, Carl Thompson, C.W. Thompson, Margaret Topping, Richard White, Gregory Woods

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Key Debates and Critical Approaches

1. Truth, Lies and Travel Writing, Daniel Carey

2. Inner Journeys: Travel Writing as Life Writing, Simon Cooke

3. Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies, Claire Lindsay

4. Travel Writing and Gender, Dúnlaith Bird

5. Travel Writing and Sexuality: Queering the Genre, Churnjeet Mahn

6. Travel Writing and Ethics, Corinne Fowler

7. Travel and the Body: Corporeality, Speed and Technology, Charles Forsdick

8. Travel Writing and Visual Culture, Margaret Topping

9. Travel Writing: Reception and Readership, Robin Jarvis

Part 2. Historical Overviews

10. Travel Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean, William Hutton

11. Chinese Travel Writing, James M. Hargett

12. Indian Travel Writing, Shobhana Bhattacharji

13. Arabic Travel Writing, to 1916, Nabil Matar

14. Medieval European Travel Writing, Anthony Bale

15. Western Travel Writing, 1450-1750, Matthew Day

16. Western Travel Writing, 1750-1950, Barbara Korte

17. African Travel Writing, Aedín Ní Loingsigh

18. Travel Writing Now, 1950-Present, Carl Thompson

Part 3. Styles, Modes, Themes

19. Pilgrims, Laura Nenzi

20. Discoverers and Explorers, Paul Smethurst

21. Travellers and Tourists, Zoë Kinsley

22. Picturesque Travel: The Aesthetics and Politics of Landscape, Elizabeth A. Bohls

23. Guidebooks, Scott Laderman

24. The Romantic Literary Travel Book, C.W. Thompson

25. Modernist Travel Writing, David Farley

26. Postmodernizing Travel Writing, Manfred Pfister

27. Travel Blogs, Kate Douglas and Kylie Cardell

28. Dark Tourism, Justin D. Edwards

29. Gay Travel Writing: An Unstable Category? Gregory Woods

Part 4 Imagined Geographies

30. Ultima Thule / The North, Graham Huggan

31. Europe, Wendy Bracewell

32. North America / USA, Susan L. Roberson

33. Latin America, Jennifer Heyward

34. The Middle East, Eva Johanna Holmberg

35. India / South Asia, Tabish Khair

36. China, Julia Kuehn

37. Australia, Richard White and Justine Greenwood

38. Sub-Saharan Africa, Laura E. Franey

39. The Polar Regions, Janice Cavell

40. Deserts, Rune Graulund

41. Mountains, Simon Bainbridge

42. The Sea, Steve Mentz

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature and Travel Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK.