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9780521781404

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521781404

  • ISBN10:

    052178140X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-12-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing is a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Five essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California, while the final three analyze some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions of this enigmatic, influential genre of writing. An extensive further reading list plus a detailed chronology are included.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors viii
Introduction 1(16)
Peter Hulme
Tim Youngs
PART I: SURVEYS
Stirrings and searchings (1500--1720)
17(20)
William H. Sherman
The Grand Tour and after (1660--1840)
37(16)
James Buzard
Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720--1914)
53(17)
Roy Bridges
Modernism and travel (1880--1940)
70(17)
Helen Carr
Travelling to write (1940--2000)
87(18)
Peter Hulme
PART II: SITES
The Middle East / Arabia: `the cradle of Islam'
105(17)
Billie Melman
South America / Amazonia: the forest of marvels
122(17)
Neil L. Whitehead
The Pacific / Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles
139(17)
Rod Edmond
Africa / The Congo: the politics of darkness
156(18)
Tim Youngs
The Isles / Ireland: the wilder shore
174(17)
Glenn Hooper
India / Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night
191(16)
Kate Teltscher
The West / California: site of the future
207(18)
Bruce Greenfield
PART III: TOPICS
Travel writing and gender
225(17)
Susan Bassnett
Travel writing and ethnography
242(19)
Joan Pau Rubies
Travel writing and its theory
261(18)
Mary Baine Campbell
Chronology 279(27)
Further reading 306(13)
Index 319

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