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Addison’s Remarks
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Bewtiful Empyre
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Bruce Chatwin
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Contemporary Travel Writing
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French Theorist Michel De Certeau
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High Imperial Era
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Le Bateau Ivre
Loredana Polezzi
Male Travellers
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Modern Travel Book
Modern Travel Writing
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Patrick Holland
Ralegh’s Discoverie
Recent Travel Writing
Ross's Narrative
Travel Book
Travel Writing
Travel Writing Genre
Travel Writing Studies
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Western Travel Writing
Women Travel Writers
Women Travellers
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415444644
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.
In this volume, Carl Thompson:
- introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates
- provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present day
- explores the autobiographical dimensions of the form
- looks at both men and women’s travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal works, drawn from both the colonial and postcolonial era
- utilises both British and American travelogues to consider the genre's role in shaping the history of both nations.
Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of current debates in the field.
Carl Thompson is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University.
