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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Peter Hulme (Editor), Tim Youngs (Editor)
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literature and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This first comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including five essays surveying the period's travel writing, a further seven 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.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction 1
Pt. I Surveys
1 Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) 17
2 The Grand Tour and after (1660-1840) 37
3 Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) 53
4 Modernism and travel (1880-1940) 70
5 Travelling to write (1940-2000) 87
Pt. II Sites
6 The Middle East / Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' 105
7 South America / Amazonia: the forest of marvels 122
8 The Pacific / Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles 139
9 Africa / The Congo: the politics of darkness 156
10 The Isles / Ireland: the wilder shore 174
11 India / Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night 191
12 The West / California: site of the future 207
Pt. III Topics
13 Travel writing and gender 225
14 Travel writing and ethnography 242
15 Travel writing and its theory 261
Chronology 279
Further reading 306
Index 319
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