The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Thompson, Carl -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing Also in this Series Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction

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PART I Key Debates and Critical Approaches

1 Truth, Lies and Travel Writing

Telling the Truth Reading Travel Note Select Bibliography

2 Inner Journeys: Travel Writing as Life Writing

Travel Writing into Life Writing Autobiographical Explorations in Post-1800 Travel Writing Select Bibliography

3 Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies

Travel Writing in Early Postcolonial Studies Postcolonial Critiques of Travel Writing Postcolonial Modes of Travel Writing Note Select Bibliography

4 Travel Writing and Gender

Feminist Imperialists and Female Solidarity Clothes Make the Man? Strategic Authority Publishing and Prevarication Improvising in the Contact Zone Conclusion Select Bibliography

5 Travel Writing and Sexuality: Queering the Genre

Queer Lives, Queer Journeys Identifying Bodies: LGBTQ Travel Writing States of Conflict: Transnational Sexualities Select Bibliography

6 Travel Writing and Ethics

Tall Tales: The Ethics of Fabulation Travel Writing as Anti-Colonial Critique Travel Writing by War Correspondents Conclusion Select Bibliography

7 Travel and the Body: Corporeality, Speed and Technology

Technology, Mechanization and Acceleration Walking and Deceleration Travel, Disability and Illness Conclusion Select Bibliography

8 Travel Writing and Visual Culture

Ocularcentrism as Eurocentrism? From Aide-mémoire to Iconotext From Visual to Virtual Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography

9 Travel Writing: Reception and Readership

Researching the Reader Reading Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Northern Ocean (1795) Reading Edward Marriott’s The Lost Tribe (1996) Note Select Bibliography

PART II Historical Overviews

10 Travel Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean

Early Greece Odyssean Afterlives The Tragedy and Comedy of Travel Historiography and Geography Periplous, Periegesis and Pausanias The Wandering Sage The Greek Novels Christian Travel Select Bibliography

11 Chinese Travel Writing

Li Daoyuan and China’s First Extended Landscape Descriptions in Prose Liu Zongyuan and the Birth of Travel Literature in China Fan Chengda and the Florescence of Travel Literature Xu Xiake : China’s Greatest Travel Writer Select Bibliography

12 Indian Travel Writing

Early Indian Travel and Travel Writing, 600 BCE –1500 CE Indian Travel and Travel Writing, 1525–c. 1800 Indian Travel Writing, c. 1800–1947 From 1947 to the Present Day Select Bibliography

13 Arabic Travel Writing, to 1916

The Period of Self-Assurance: From the Beginning Until 1798 Defeat, Discovery, and Awakening: 1798–1916 Conclusion Note Select Bibliography

14 European Travel Writing in the Middle Ages

Pilgrimage and the Pilgrimage Guidebook Virtual Pilgrimage, Fantasy, and Curiosity Satire and Condemnation Select Bibliography

15 Western Travel Writing, 1450–1750

Cultural Attitudes to Travel and Travel Writing The Emergence of the ‘Voyages and Travels’ Genre Long-distance Voyages of Trade, Discovery, and Colonization Near-Eastern, European, and Home Travels Conclusion Select Bibliography

16 Western Travel Writing, 1750–1950

Encyclopaedism to Imperialism Grand Tour to Modern Tourism After 1900 Select Bibliography

17 African Travel Writing

Invisible Travellers African Travel Writing Introduced African Travel Writing on its Own Terms Select Bibliography

18 Travel Writing Now, 1950 to the Present Day

From ‘Voyages and Travels’ to ‘Travel Writing’ Key Contexts I: The Cold War and Decolonization Key Contexts II: Globalization and Tourism Extreme and Ironic Adventurers Nature Travels and Tribal Voices New Cultural Histories and Mobile Memoirs Postcolonial Travellers Select Bibliography

PART III Styles, Modes, Themes

19 Pilgrims

Twelfth- and Fifteenth-Century European Pilgrims to the Holy Land Nineteenth-Century Japanese Pilgrims to Ise The Gender Variable Conclusion Select Bibliography

20 Discoverers and Explorers

Mapping Wonders: Medieval and Early Modern Discoverers Conquerors of Truth: Scientific Explorers of the Enlightenment Era The Cult of the Explorer Hero Conclusion Select Bibliography

21 Travellers and Tourists

Traveller versus Tourist Othering the Tourist The Post-Tourist Select Bibliography

22 Picturesque Travel: The Aesthetics and Politics of Landscape

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Recollection of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 The Imperial Picturesque The Urban Picturesque: Jerrold and Doré’s London: A Pilgrimage Note Select Bibliography

23 Guidebooks

Race and Empire in the Philippines Service in Vietnam What Occupation? Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography

24 The Romantic Literary Travel Book

Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy (1846) Friedrich Schlegel, Briefe auf einer Reise durch die Niederlande, Rheingegenden, die Schweiz und einen Teil von Frankreich (1806 and 1823) Hans Christian Andersen, Skyggebilleder af en Reise til Harzen, det sachsiske Schweitz, etc., etc. i Sommeren 1831 (1831) Select Bibliography

25 Modernist Travel Writing

Blaise Cendrars: Modern Conveyances Aimé Césaire: Discourse on Travel Writing Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Angel on the Road Conclusion Select Bibliography

26 Postmodernizing Travel Writing

Questionable qUests Criss-crossing Borders Faction / Fiction Notes Select Bibliography

27 Travel Blogs

Form, Audience and Professionalization Reviewing as Travel Blogging Travel Blogging: New Directions Select Bibliography

28 Dark Tourism

Disaster and Dark Tourism Slums and Dark Tourism Slavery and Dark Tourism Conclusion Select Bibliography

29 Gay Travel Writing: An Unstable Category?

What’s the Difference? A Sense of Community Misfits and Mavericks Select Bibliography

PART IV Imagined Geographies

30 Ultima Thule / The North

Cultural hIstories, Imaginative Geographies Ideas of North Norths True and False Thule Tales Note Select Bibliography

31 Europe

Itineraries Zones Select Bibliography

32 North America / USA

Commodified Geographies Geographies of Hardship Geographies of Wonder Geographies of Character Paradoxical Geographies of the Social and Political Select Bibliography

33 Latin America

Discovery American Epistemologies Independence and After Unearthly Tidings El Ojo Patrio: Reclaiming the Gaze Note Select Bibliography

34 The Middle East

Medieval Maps of the Mind The Levant of Trade and Diplomacy Arabian and Eastern Attractions, 1800–1947 Uprisings, Emancipation and War: Post 1947 Select Bibliography

35 India / South Asia

Early Accounts of India Enlightenment and its Others ‘Modern’ Depictions of India Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Accounts of India Select Bibliography

36 China

Medieval Contact Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Explorations Nineteenth-century Orientalist Accounts Twentieth-century Variety Conclusion Select Bibliography

37 Australia

Colonial Oddity: to 1901 Writing the Nation 1888–1945 Travel Writing in an Age of Mass Tourism Select Bibliography

38 Sub-Saharan Africa

Medieval and Early Modern Accounts Early Modern Visions and Views Late Eighteenth-century and Romantic Imaginings Adventure and Imperialism: The 1840s–1930s Post-war and Postcolonial Imaginings Select Bibliography

39 The Polar Regions

Medieval and Early Modern Accounts Eighteenth-century Imaginings Nineteenth-century Quests The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Polar Controversies Science and Sovereignty Heroic Footsteps and Postcolonial Re-imaginings Note Select Bibliography

40 Deserts

From Arabia Deserta to Deserta Populosa A Death in Life: Abstinence or Indulgence, Truth or Mirage? The Quest for Self: Contemporary Desert Travellers The Future of Desert Travel Select Bibliography

41 Mountains

The Rise of Mountain-Travel Writing Encountering and Imagining Mountains Select Bibliography

42 The Sea

Odysseus on the God-sea Voyaging Out Putting Girdles Round about Globes after Magellan Learning the Ropes with Ishmael and John Smith From Sail to Steam with Joseph Conrad Conclusion: Into the Sea of Air Notes Select Bibliography

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