Full Description
Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing - a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors' introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs
Part One: Framing Travel
The Scientific Traveller / Angela Byrne
Nature Writing / Paul Smethurst
Migrant Narratives / Aedín Ní Loingsigh
The Expatriate Life / Lynn Mastellotto
Travelling in Pairs / Kathryn N. Jones
Footsteps / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth
Vertical Travel / Charles Forsdick
Part Two: Modes of Writing
Letters / Eve Tavor Bannet
Diaries and Journals / Christina Laffin
Guidance and Advice / Alasdair Pettinger
Narrative / John Culbert
Description / Benjamin Colbert
Lectures / Tom F. Wright
Part Three: Sensuous Geographies
Seeing / Margaret Topping
Hearing / Tim Youngs
Touching / Sarah Jackson
Tasting / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
Smelling / Clare Brant
Part Four: Interactions
Hospitality / Kevin J. James
Foreign Exchange / David Murray
Between Languages / Michael Cronin
Animals / Elizabeth Leane
Part Five: Paratexts
Editorial Matters / Michael G. Brennan
Maps / James R. Akerman
Book and Print Technology / Innes Keighren
Works Cited
Index
