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Autore: | Thompson Carl (Carl Edward) |
Titolo: | Travel writing / / Carl Thompson |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/491 |
Soggetto topico: | Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism | |
Travelers' writings - History and criticism | |
Travel in literature | |
Travel writing - History | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Travel writing |
ISBN: | 1-136-72079-0 |
1-283-15097-2 | |
9786613150974 | |
1-136-72080-4 | |
0-203-81624-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823181703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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