Handbook of British Travel Writing

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Handbook of British Travel Writing

Edited by: Barbara Schaff

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 12 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

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Barbara Schaff, University of Göttingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0. Introduction Barbara Schaff Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part I: Systematic Questions
1. Periods of Travel Writing Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
2. Discourses of Travel Writing Kirsten Sandrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3. Gender Elizabeth A. Bohls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4. Travel Writing and Translation Susan Pickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
5. Practices and Purposes Barbara Korte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
6. Intertextual Travel Writing Julia Beilein and Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
7. The Market for Travel Writing Bill Bell Publicly Available Download PDF	125
Part II: Close Readings
8. Walter Ralegh, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596) Johannes Schlegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
9. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Tour Thro’ The Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1727) Laurence Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
10. Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735) Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
11. Thomas Pennant, Selected Works (1754–1804) Mary-Ann Constantine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
12. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) Anja Drautzburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
13. James Boswell, Journals and Letters from his Grand Tour (1764–1765) Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
14. James Cook and George Forster, Journals and Travel Reports from Their “Voyage Round the World” (1777) Johannes Görbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
15. Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) Anca-Raluca Radu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
16. Mariana Starke, Letters from Italy (1800) Susan Pickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
17. Maria Graham, Travel Writing on India, Italy, Brazil, and Chile (1812–1824) Claudia Georgi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
18. Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818) Ralf Haekel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
19. Anna Jameson, Selected Works (1826–1859) Alessa Johns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
20. Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Felix Sprang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
21. Isabella Bird, Selected Works (1856–1899) Stephen Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
22. Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897) and West African Studies (1899) Katharina Nambula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
23. Vita Sackville-West, Selected Works (1926, 1928) Alison E. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
24. Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana (1937) Casey Blanton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449
25. Freya Stark, Selected Works (1938–1988) Dúnlaith Bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
26. W. H. Auden, Journey to a War (1939) Ralf Hertel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
27. V. S. Naipaul, Selected Works (1962–1998) Susanne Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
28. Dervla Murphy, Selected Works (1965–2015) Katarina Gephardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	515
29. William Dalrymple, Selected Works (1989–1997) Jens Elze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	535
30. Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West (1999) and Great British Journeys (2007) Frauke Reitemeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
31. Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places (2007) Tim Hannigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	575
Index of Names and Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
Index of Subjects and Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	609
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	617

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eBook published on:

September 7, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783110498974

Hardcover published on:

September 7, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110499834

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Front matter:

9

Main content:

618

Illustrations:

20

Coloured Illustrations:

4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110498974

eBook ISBN: 9783110498974

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110499834

Keywords for this book

English Studies; Travel; Exploration; Gender

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Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes

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