New directions in travel writing studies. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst.
• Editors: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst; PART I: TEXTUALITY; 1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan; Steve Clark; 2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing; Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski; 3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature; Alex Watson; PART II: TOPOLOGY; 4. Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe; Joseph Gualtieri; 5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall'; Peter Kitson; 6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's <span style="font-style:italic;" >The Wild Places and <span style="font-style:italic;" >The Old Ways ; Paul Smethurst; PART III: MOBILITY; 7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies; Charles Forsdick; 8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious; Caitlin Vandertop; 9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel; Tim Youngs; PART IV: MAPPING; 10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent; Vanessa Collingridge; 11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory; Otto Heim; 12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of <span style="font-style:italic;" >Mexico, This Month ; Claire Lindsay; PART V: ALTERITY; 13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850; Wendy Bracewell; 14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell; Graham Huggan; PART VI: GLOBALITY; 15. Travel and Utopia; Bill Ashcroft; 16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878; Julia Kuehn; 17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa; Maureen Moynagh; 18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860; Laurence Williams; Index;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809.93355; Travel writing -- History; Books & Reading; General; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Travel writing; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137457264; 1137457260
• Related ISBNs: 9781137457578
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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