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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461399003321

Autore

Thompson Carl (Carl Edward)

Titolo

Travel writing / / Carl Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-15097-2

9786613150974

1-136-72080-4

0-203-81624-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

New critical idiom

Disciplina

820.9/491

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

Travelers' writings - History and criticism

Travel in literature

Travel writing - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Travel Writing; Copyright Page; 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 WritingEpistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gainingthe 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 Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana (1596); Writing the Self: Travel Writing's Inward



Turn; The Imperious 'I'?; 6. Representing the Other; Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and ColonialDiscourse; Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing andNeo-Colonialism

Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's ColonialistTendencies7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality; Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing; Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's TravelWriting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Women Travellers and Colonialism; Women's Travel Writing Today; Glossary; Bibliography and further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present dayexplores the autobiographical dimensions of the formlooks at both men and women's travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal wo