The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415825245 ISBN 13: 9780415825245

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences.

An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines:

• Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture
• Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures
• Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism
• Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world.

Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study.

Contributors: Simon Bainbridge, Anthony Bale, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Dúnlaith Bird, Elizabeth A. Bohls, Wendy Bracewell, Kylie Cardell, Daniel Carey, Janice Cavell, Simon Cooke, Matthew Day, Kate Douglas, Justin D. Edwards, David Farley, Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler, Laura E. Franey, Rune Graulund, Justine Greenwood, James M. Hargett, Jennifer Hayward, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Graham Huggan, William Hutton, Robin Jarvis, Tabish Khair, Zoë Kinsley, Barbara Korte, Julia Kuehn, Scott Laderman, Claire Lindsay, Churnjeet Mahn, Nabil Matar, Steve Mentz, Laura Nenzi, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Manfred Pfister, Susan L. Roberson, Paul Smethurst, Carl Thompson, C.W. Thompson, Margaret Topping, Richard White, Gregory Woods.

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Recensione:

"Readers of this volume will be transported away from a cosy middle-class voyeuristic observation of travel into a serious new world, which offers new perspectives and insights into travel writing. This is a welcome addition to a respected series of volumes, which aim to throw new light on familiar topics. Having approached this volume with the feeling that I was entering familiar territory, I soon realised that the journey had only just begun. With its excellent bibliographies and wealth of references, the way is well signposted."

- Diana Dixon, Freelance reviewer and Editor Local Studies Librarian, Oakham, UK

L'autore:

Carl Thompson is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0415825245
• ISBN 13: 9780415825245
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 486
• Redattore: Thompson Carl