CONTENTS

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 Remark on Italy (1705) and Ralegh’s Discoverie o 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

Glossary

Bibliography and further reading

Index