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Record Nr.

UNISA996205073203316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to travel writing / / edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-48104-X

1-107-48548-7

0-511-99950-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Disciplina

820.9/491

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism

Travelers - History

Travel in literature

Travel writing - History

Voyages and travels - Historiography

British - Foreign countries - Historiography

English prose literature - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

English-speaking countries Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) / William H. Sherman -- The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard -- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges -- Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr -- Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme -- The Middle East, Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman -- South America, Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Pacific, Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond -- Africa, The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs -- The isles, Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper -- India, Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher -- The west, California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield -- Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett -- Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau



RubieĢs -- Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.

Sommario/riassunto

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.