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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
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
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