The Cambridge Companion to Travel WritingPeter Hulme, Tim Youngs 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. |
Contents
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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