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The Cambridge companion to travel writing / edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companions to literaturePublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: x, 343 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 052178140X
  • 0521786525 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Companion to travel writing
  • Travel writing
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9491
LOC classification:
  • PR 756 C178 2002
Contents:
Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) / William H. Sherman -- The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard -- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges -- Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr -- Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme -- The Middle East, Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman -- South America, Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Pacific, Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond -- Africa, The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs -- The isles, Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper -- India, Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher -- The west, California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield -- Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett -- Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau Rubiés -- Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.
Summary: Traces the history of travel writing from the sixteenth century to the present, looks at areas around the world historically conducive to writing, and examines travel writing in conjunction with gender, ethnography, and theory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-318) and index.

Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) / William H. Sherman -- The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard -- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges -- Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr -- Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme -- The Middle East, Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman -- South America, Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Pacific, Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond -- Africa, The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs -- The isles, Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper -- India, Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher -- The west, California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield -- Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett -- Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau Rubiés -- Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.

Traces the history of travel writing from the sixteenth century to the present, looks at areas around the world historically conducive to writing, and examines travel writing in conjunction with gender, ethnography, and theory.

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