New directions in travel writing studies. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Julia Kuehn, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong ; Paul Smethurst, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong.
• Editors: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul
• Contents: 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 "The Wild Places" and "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 "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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.93355; Literature; Travel writing -- History; Fiction; Science (General); LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; TRAVEL / General; Travel writing; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Reiseliteratur; Reseskildringar -- historia; Social Science -- General; Fiction -- General; Science -- General; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900; Fiction & related items; Popular science; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137457257; 1137457252
• Related ISBNs: 9781349567676; 1349567671; 9781137457578; 1137457570
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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