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The Cambridge companion to travel writing /

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Other Authors: Hulme, Peter, Youngs, Tim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
English prose literature > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
British > Foreign countries > Historiography.
Voyages and travels > Historiography.
Travel writing > History.
Travel in literature.
Travelers > History.
Écrits de voyageurs anglais > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de voyageurs américains > Histoire et critique.
Prose anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Britanniques à l'étranger > Historiographie.
Voyages > Historiographie.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Voyageurs > Histoire.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) / William H. Sherman
  • The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard
  • Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges
  • Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr
  • Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme
  • The Middle East, Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman
  • South America, Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead
  • The Pacific, Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond
  • Africa, The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs
  • The isles, Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper
  • India, Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher
  • The west, California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield
  • Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett
  • Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau Rubiés
  • Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.