LEADER 04272oam 2200745I 450 001 9910789531203321 005 20230725031412.0 010 $a1-136-72079-0 010 $a1-283-15097-2 010 $a9786613150974 010 $a1-136-72080-4 010 $a0-203-81624-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203816240 035 $a(CKB)2670000000094371 035 $a(EBL)692374 035 $a(OCoLC)730151702 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000526251 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12189402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526251 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10519321 035 $a(PQKB)11053369 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL692374 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477484 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC692374 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000094371 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTravel writing /$fCarl Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 225 1 $aNew critical idiom 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-44465-9 311 $a0-415-44464-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 327 $aDiscoveries 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 327 $aOther 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 330 $aAn increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present dayexplores the autobiographical dimensions of the formlooks at both men and women's travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal wo 410 0$aNew critical idiom. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravelers' writings$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravelers' writings$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 676 $a820.9/491 700 $aThompson$b Carl$g(Carl Edward),$01571507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789531203321 996 $aTravel writing$93845976 997 $aUNINA