Routledge Research in Travel Writing – serie
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Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing
Av Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3156 kr
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This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts …
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing
Av Paula Henrikson, Christina Kullberg
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel …
Travelling Servants
Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts …
Revisiting Italy
British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61)
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment …
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing
Av Paula Henrikson, Christina Kullberg
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel …
Revisiting Italy
British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61)
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment …
Ethics of Description
The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing
Av Matt Reeck
Inbunden, 2023
3146 kr
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Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French literature where metropolitan authors traveling abroad demonstrate their awareness of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples. During the …
Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. …
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Radical Departures
Av Martyn Cornick, Martin Hurcombe m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the …
Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland
The Commodification of Culture
Av K.J. James
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist …
Impressions of Southern Italy
British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired …
Travel Writing from Black Australia
Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian …
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and …
Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing
Av Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts …
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
Modernity, Regionality, Mobility
Av Alison Martin, Lut Missinne m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
926 kr
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This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now …
Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830
Nationalism, Ideology, Gender
Av Alison Martin, Susan Pickford
Inbunden, 2012
2888 kr
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This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge …
Travel Writing, Form, and Empire
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Av Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst
Häftad, 2012
929 kr
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This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath. …
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts
Häftad, 2011
912 kr
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This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, …
Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland
The Commodification of Culture
Av K.J. James
Inbunden, 2014
2888 kr
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This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist …
Impressions of Southern Italy
British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas
Inbunden, 2013
2888 kr
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Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired …
Travel Writing from Black Australia
Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality
Inbunden, 2015
3156 kr
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Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian …
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Radical Departures
Av Martyn Cornick, Martin Hurcombe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2888 kr
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This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the …
Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing
Inbunden, 2011
3156 kr
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In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. …
Travel Writing, Form, and Empire
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Av Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst
Inbunden, 2008
2888 kr
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This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath. …
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts
Inbunden, 2008
3156 kr
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This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, …
Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America
Inbunden, 2009
2101 kr
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This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? …
Travel Writing and Atrocities
Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo
Inbunden, 2010
2888 kr
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This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, …
Travel and Ethics
Theory and Practice
Av Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2888 kr
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Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and …
Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950
A Barren Legacy?
Av Jenny Walker
Inbunden, 2022
2888 kr
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Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger; more specifically, it is about those who, since 1950, have followed in their literary footsteps. In analysing modern works covering …
Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy
“Instructions for Travellers,” circa 1750–1850
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, …
