Description |
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) |
Contents |
"Naked" politics in travel writing / Ulrike Brisson -- The politics of travel writing in 2006 / Bernard Schweizer -- A short walk through Afghanistan : orientalism and its discontent in recent literature / Mark Graham -- The politics of travel writing in fascist Spain / Javier Torre -- Travel in disguise : on travel writing and cultural governance / Hager Weslati -- The personal is political : but is the political personal : women travel writers and their changing political roles / Maureen Mulligan -- Travel writing, emigration laws, and racial whitening in nineteenth-century German-Brazilian history / Gabi R. Kathöfer -- British female radical travelers and the revolution controversy, 1789-1815 / Tsai-Yeh Wang -- A new Æra for Switzerland : political instruction in Helen Maria Williams' and Sophie von La Roche's Swiss travel narratives during the French Revolution / Florence Widmer-Schnyder |
Summary |
With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an ""innocent"" enterp |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
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Travel writing -- Political aspects
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Travel writing.
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Literary studies: general.
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Political activism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Travelers' writings
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Politik
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Reiseliteratur
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Récits de voyages -- Histoire et critique.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Brisson, Ulrike
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Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
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ISBN |
9781443815758 |
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1443815756 |
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