| Description |
1 online resource (x, 343 pages : illustrations, map) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Stirrings and searchings (1500-1700) / William H. Sherman -- The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard -- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges -- Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr -- Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme -- The Middle East. Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman -- South America. Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Pacific. Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond -- Africa. The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs -- The isles. Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper -- India. Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher -- The west. California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield -- Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett -- Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau RubieĢs -- Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell |
| Summary |
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from Anthropology, History, Literary and Cultural Studies to offer a vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-318) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism
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English prose literature -- History and criticism
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British -- Foreign countries -- Historiography
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Voyages and travels -- Historiography
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Travel writing -- History
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Travel in literature
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Travelers -- History
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| SUBJECT |
English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
Hulme, Peter
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Youngs, Tim
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| LC no. |
2002023425 |
| ISBN |
9780511999505 |
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051199950X |
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