| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Writes of Passage -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- FIELDS OF INTEREST -- SPACES OF REPRESENTATION -- SPACES OF TRAVEL -- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSAYS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Limited Visions of Africa -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Enlightenment Travels -- BOGLE AND TURNER IN TIBET -- BUDDHISM DEFINED -- A PIVOTAL MOMENT -- LHASA AT LAST -- BEYOND INDIA AND TIBET -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Writing Travel and Mapping Sexuality -- MAPPING SEXUALITY: THE NIGHTS AND THE SOTADIC ZONE -- TRAVEL GEOGRAPHIES AND TRAVELLING SEXUALITIES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 The Flight from Lucknow -- THE FLIGHT FROM LUCKNOW -- TRAVELLING AND WRITING HOME -- TRAVELLING AWAY -- RECONSTRUCTING HOME -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 Scripting Egypt -- TRAVEL WRITING -- THEATRE, TEXT -- SCRIPTING, TRAVELLING AND WRITING -- SITES AND SIGHTS -- EGYPTIAN MODERN: VIEWING PLATFORMS AND VANTAGE-POINTS -- EXCAVATION AND EXHIBITION -- VIEW-HUNTING IN THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES -- SCRIPTING EGYPT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Dis-Orientation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 The Exoticism of the Familiar and the Familiarity of the Exotic -- INTRODUCTION: THE INSTABILITY OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE -- EUROPEAN, ORIENTAL, OR BALKAN? -- CLASSICAL AND MODERN GREECE -- TRAVELLING THEORIES -- READINGS -- ENGLISHMEN, GREEKS, TURKS AND ROMANS -- A STRANGE LIKENESS: GREECE AND IRELAND -- CONCLUSION: GREEK CARICATURES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Travelling through the Closet -- INTRODUCTION -- PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERARY THEORY -- THE CLOSET -- GEOGRAPHIES OF DESIRE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 Writing over the Map of Provence -- WRITING THE ENGLISH COUNTRY IDYLL IN RURAL FRANCE -- LITERARY DEVICES -- AN UNMEDIATED PLACE -- CONCLUSION: 'PROVENCE'-JUST A FICTIONAL LANDSCAPE? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index |
| Summary |
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of ""othering"" which travelers bring to a place, and the ""real"" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Travel writing.
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Travel in literature.
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Travel -- 18th century
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Travel -- 19th century
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Voyages, Imaginary.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Travel in literature
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Travel
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Travel writing
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Voyages, Imaginary
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duncan, James S
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Gregory, Derek, 1951-
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| LC no. |
98008225 |
| ISBN |
9780203054543 |
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0203054547 |
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9780415160131 |
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0415160138 |
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9780415160148 |
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0415160146 |
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0585448566 |
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9780585448565 |
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661032994X |
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9786610329946 |
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1134721250 |
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9781134721252 |
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1280329947 |
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9781280329944 |
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