CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION 3
5. PART ONE: Enlightenment Europe and Its Globe
6. I. Uses of the Grand Tour: Boswell and His Contemporaries 25
7. II. The Philosophe as Traveler: Diderot 69
8. III. Circumnavigation: Bougainville and Cook 86
9. PART TWO: Romantic Transgressions
10. IV. Travel for Travel's Sake: Stendhal 125
11. V. Darwin's Passionate Voyage 145
12. VI. The Perverse Traveler: Flaubert in the Orient 164
13. PART THREE: Europe and Its Discontents
14. VII. Freud and Travel 187
15. VIII. The Other Italy: D. H. Lawrence 202
16. IX. Political Witness: Τ. E. Lawrence and Gide 223
17. X. Travel for Science's Sake: Malinowski and Levi-Strauss 246
18. PART FOUR: Postcolonial Dilemmas
19. XI. Writing the Orient: Barthes 287
20. XII. Originary Displacement and the Writer's Burden: V. S. Naipaul 305
21. Index 335