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New directions in travel writing studies
Title
New directions in travel writing studies / edited by Julia Kuehn, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong, Paul Smethurst, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong.
ISBN
9781137457578 (hardback)
1137457570 (hardback)
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Physical Description
xiii, 325 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"New Directions in Travel Writing Studies focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. In six sections - Textuality, Topology, Mobility, Mapping, Alterity and Globality - internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing. The volume turns away from regional and historical surveys, or author-based approaches, and from volumes of essays related to particular themes, on postcolonial travel writing, tourism, gender and travel, postmodern travel, and the like. New Directions in Travel Writing Studies is designed to augment and complement the companions, handbooks and introductions to travel writing on the market, and aims to provide a theoretical touchstone for future travel-related studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 17, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note:
List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; Julia Kuehn and Paul SmethurstPART I: TEXTUALITY1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan; Steve Clark2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing; Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature; Alex WatsonPART II: TOPOLOGY4. Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe; Joseph Gualtieri5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall'; Peter Kitson6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places and The Old Ways; Paul SmethurstPART III: MOBILITY7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies; Charles Forsdick8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious; Caitlin Vandertop9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel; Tim YoungsPART IV: MAPPING10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent; Vanessa Collingridge11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory; Otto Heim12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of Mexico, This Month; Claire LindsayPART V: ALTERITY13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850; Wendy Bracewell14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell; Graham HugganPART VI: GLOBALITY15. Travel and Utopia; Bill Ashcroft16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878; Julia Kuehn17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa; Maureen Moynagh18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860; Laurence WilliamsIndex.
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