04272oam 2200745I 450 991082318170332120230725031412.01-136-72079-01-283-15097-297866131509741-136-72080-40-203-81624-210.4324/9780203816240 (CKB)2670000000094371(EBL)692374(OCoLC)730151702(SSID)ssj0000526251(PQKBManifestationID)12189402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526251(PQKBWorkID)10519321(PQKB)11053369(Au-PeEL)EBL692374(CaPaEBR)ebr10477484(CaONFJC)MIL315097(MiAaPQ)EBC692374(EXLCZ)99267000000009437120180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTravel writing /Carl Thompson1st ed.New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (239 p.)New critical idiomDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-44465-9 0-415-44464-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 WorldDiscoveries 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-ColonialismOther 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; IndexAn 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 woNew critical idiom.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismTravelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismTravelers' writingsHistory and criticismTravel in literatureTravel writingHistoryTravelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.Travelers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Travelers' writingsHistory and criticism.Travel in literature.Travel writingHistory.820.9/491Thompson Carl(Carl Edward),1628263MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823181703321Travel writing3965284UNINA