Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. 1. Writing Travel 3
6. Theoretical Overture
7. 2. Chrono-Types: Notes on Forms of Time in the Travelogue 25
8. Enlightenment to Modernism
9. 3. On Site: Pilgrimage and Authorship in Goethe’s ‘Third Pilgrimage’ and Italian Journey 57
10. 4. ‘Trouver du nouveau?’ Baudelaire’s Voyages 79
11. 5. Seafaring Jews, World History, and the Zionist Imaginary 98
12. 6. Ruins Travel: Orphic Journeys through 1940s Germany 123
13. Postmodernism
14. 7. Walking through Thought: Thomas Bernhard’s Walking and Peter Rosei’s Who Was Edgar Allan? 163
15. 8. Charming the Carnivore: Bruce Chatwin’s Australian Odyssey 173
16. 9. Touching the Real: Alternative Travel and Landscapes of Fear 195
17. 10. Virtual Travellers: Cyberspace and Global Networks 211
18. Epilogue
19. 11. ‘Tears at the End of the Road’: The Impasse of Travel and the Walls at Angel Island 239
20. Contributors 261
21. Index 263
22. German and European Studies 277