The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 11/21/2002
EAN 9780521786522, ISBN10: 0521786525
Paperback, 358 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and 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. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.
Introduction Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs
1. Stirrings and searchings (1500–1720) William H. Sherman
2. The Grand Tour and after James Buzard
3. Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720–1914) Roy Bridges
4. Modernism and travel (1880–1940) Helen Carr
5. Travelling to write (1940–2000) Peter Hulme
6. The Middle East/Arabia
'the cradle of Islam' Billie Melman
7. South America/Amazonia
the forest of marvels Neil L. Whitehead
8. The Pacific/Tahiti
Queen of the south sea isles Rod Edmond
9. Africa/the Congo
the politics of darkness Tim Youngs
10. The Isles/Ireland
the wilder shore Glenn Hooper
11. India/Calcutta
city of palaces and dreadful night Kate Teltscher
12. The west/California
sites of the future Bruce Greenfield
13. Travel writing and gender Susan Bassnett
14. Travel writing and ethnography Joan Pau Rubiés
15. Travel writing and its theory Mary Baine Campbell
Chronology
Further reading.