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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/491
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: English-speaking countries Intellectual life
• Persona (resp. second.): HulmePeter; YoungsTim <1961->
• 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 Rubiés -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cambridge companion to travel writing
• ISBN: 1-107-48104-X; 1-107-48548-7; 0-511-99950-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205073203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.