The Cambridge Companion to Travel WritingPeter Hulme, Tim Youngs Cambridge University Press, 21/11/2002 - 343 من الصفحات The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from Anthropology, History, Literary and Cultural Studies to offer a 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. |
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Stirrings and searchings 15001720 | 17 |
The Grand Tour and after 16601840 | 37 |
Exploration and travel outside Europe 17201914 | 53 |
Modernism and travel 18801940 | 70 |
Travelling to write 19402000 | 87 |
II | 103 |
The Middle EastArabiathe cradle of Islam | 105 |
South AmericaAmazonia the forest of marvels | 122 |
India Calcutta city of palaces and dreadful night | 191 |
The WestCalifornia site of the future | 207 |
III | 223 |
Travel writing and gender | 225 |
IV | 242 |
VI | 261 |
VIII | 279 |
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The PacificTahiti queen of the South Sea isles | 139 |
AfricaThe Congo the politics of darkness | 156 |
The IslesIreland the wilder shore | 174 |
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Adventure Africa Amazon Amazonia American anthropology Arab Arabia became Britain British Calcutta California Cambridge Companion cannibalism civilisation Colin Thubron colonial Congo contemporary cultural D. H. Lawrence Dervla Murphy described desert discourse Discovery early modern edited eighteenth Empire encounters England Eric Newby essay ethnography Europe European Evelyn Waugh example expedition experience exploration fiction French Freya Stark genre geographical Grand Tour Hakluyt Henry imperial India Ireland Irish Isabella Bird island James John Journal journey land landscapes literary Literature London Mary Middle East missionaries narrative native nature nineteenth century Orientalism Pacific Paul Theroux Peter picturesque pilgrimage political published Purchas readers Richard River Robert Robyn Davidson rôle Round the World Routledge scientific social Society South studies Tahiti Tahitian Theroux Thomas tion tourist tradition travel accounts travel books Travel Literature travel texts travel writing University Press V. S. Naipaul Victorian Voyage Round West Western William women travellers York