Thompson - The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TRAVEL WRITING

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences.

An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines:

Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture

Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures

Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism

Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world.

Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study.

Carl Thompson is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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The Routledge companion to travel writing / [edited by] Carl Thompson.
pages cm. (Routledge companions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Travelers writings, EnglishHistory and criticism. 2. Travelers writings, AmericanHistory and criticism. 3. Travel in literature. 4. Travel writingHistory. I. Thompson, Carl (Carl Edward) editor.
PR756.T72R68 2015
820.932dc23
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ISBN: 978-0-415-82524-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-36612-7 (ebk)

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Simon Bainbridge is Professor of Romantic Studies in the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster. He has published widely on the British literature of the Romantic period, especially as seen in relation to its historical context,and is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Romanticism and Mountaineering: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 17601837.

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He has recently published a new translation of The Book of Margery Kempe (Oxford Worlds Classics, 2015), and his current research is concerned with pilgrimage and reading in late medieval Jerusalem and Palestine.

Shobhana Bhattacharji taught at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi for 40 years. She is the editor of Indian Travel Writing (Sahitya Akademi, 2008), and of student editions of Othello, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Mansfield Park, and Romantic poetry; she has also published articles on mountain travel writing.

Dnlaith Bird is a Lecturer at the Universit Paris Sud, researching travel writing, vagabondage, gender, and colonialism. Her publications include Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Womens Oriental Travelogues, 18501950 (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Selling the Skirt: Womens Travel Writing and the Literary Market in the edited volume Women Matter: Femmes Matire (Peter Lang, 2013).

Elizabeth A. Bohls of the University of Oregon is the author of Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean 17701833 (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2013); and Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 17171818 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as numerous articles on travel writing and the novel. She co-edited the anthology Travel Writing 17001830 (Oxford Worlds Classics, 2005) with Ian Duncan.

Wendy Bracewell is Professor of Southeast European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.She has written and edited a number of works on East European travel writing, particularly in the framework of the East Looks West series (Central European University Press, 20082009).

Kylie Cardell is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, South Australia. She is the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and (with Kate Douglas) Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2014).

Daniel Carey is Director of the Moore Institute and Professor of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His publications include Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2006); edited collections on Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2012); The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Blackwells, 2004). He is co-general editor of Richard Hakluyts Principal Navigations, V oyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (15981600), in preparation for Oxford University Press.