Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900

by Henes, Mary; Murray, Brian H.

• ISBN13: 9781137543387
• ISBN10: 1137543388
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-10
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The nineteenth-century travel writer cannibalised other modes of literary, geographical and scientific writing, while simultaneously forging experimental and dynamic forms in the struggle to represent the contingent realities of the road. This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the period, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation across the long nineteenth century. The first part of the volume combines literary scholarship with art-historical research and explores points of intersection between the print, visual and material culture of travel. The second section investigates how existing literary and historical narratives affected the literary representation of popular sites, and how the material realities of transport impacted upon the formal techniques through which these experiences were represented.

Author Biography

Mary Henes is an independent scholar working in the UK. She completed her doctoral thesis at King's College London in 2012. She now works in widening participation while continuing to research and publish, particularly on women's twentieth-century travel writing.

Brian H. Murray is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture, an interdisciplinary research project based at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. He has recently published articles on Dickens's travel writing, the literature of African exploration, and fantasies of the biblical past in nineteenth century Ireland.

Table of Contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Forms of Travel, Modes of Transport; Brian H. Murray
PART I: MATERIAL COLLECTIONS, VISUAL INTERVENTIONS
2. Topos, Taxonomy, and Travel in Nineteenth-Century Women's Scrapbooks; Clare Pettitt
3. Material (Re)collections of the 'Shiny East': A Late Nineteenth-Century Travel Account by a British Woman in India; Renate Dohmen
4. Photography, Travel Writing and Tactile Tourism: Tauchnitz, Extra-illustration, and The Marble Faun; Victoria Mills
5. Photography and the Real: The Biblical Gaze and the Professional Album in the Holy Land; Simon Goldhill
PART II: LOCATING LITERARY FORM
6. Getting Socially on the Road: The Short, Happy Life of the Anapaestic Tourism Narrative, 1766-1830; A.V. Seaton
7. The Aura of Place: Poetic Form and the Protestant Cemetery in Rome; Alison Chapman
8. In the Steps of Saint Paul; Michael Ledger-Lomas
9. From Transport to Transgression: Alexander Pushkin's Literary Journeys; Nicholas Warner
10. Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel, and the Art of Speed; Peter Garratt
Notes
Bibliography
Index