Part 1. Key Debates and Critical Approaches
1. Truth, Lies and Travel Writing, Daniel Carey
2. Inner Journeys: Travel Writing as Life Writing, Simon Cooke
3. Travel Writing and Postcolonial Studies, Claire Lindsay
4. Travel Writing and Gender, Dúnlaith Bird
5. Travel Writing and Sexuality: Queering the Genre, Churnjeet Mahn
6. Travel Writing and Ethics, Corinne Fowler
7. Travel and the Body: Corporeality, Speed and Technology, Charles Forsdick
8. Travel Writing and Visual Culture, Margaret Topping
9. Travel Writing: Reception and Readership, Robin Jarvis
Part 2. Historical Overviews
10. Travel Writing in the Ancient Mediterranean, William Hutton
11. Chinese Travel Writing, James M. Hargett
12. Indian Travel Writing, Shobhana Bhattacharji
13. Arabic Travel Writing, to 1916, Nabil Matar
14. European Travel Writing in the Middle Ages, Anthony Bale
15. Western Travel Writing, 1450-1750, Matthew Day
16. Western Travel Writing, 1750-1950, Barbara Korte
17. African Travel Writing, Aedín Ní Loingsigh
18. Travel Writing Now, 1950 to the Present Day, Carl Thompson
Part 3. Styles, Modes, Themes
19. Pilgrims, Laura Nenzi
20. Discoverers and Explorers, Paul Smethurst
21. Travellers and Tourists, Zoë Kinsley
22. Picturesque Travel: The Aesthetics and Politics of Landscape, Elizabeth A. Bohls
23. Guidebooks, Scott Laderman
24. The Romantic Literary Travel Book, C.W. Thompson
25. Modernist Travel Writing, David Farley
26. Postmodernizing Travel Writing, Manfred Pfister
27. Travel Blogs, Kate Douglas and Kylie Cardell
28. Dark Tourism, Justin D. Edwards
29. Gay Travel Writing: An Unstable Category? Gregory Woods
Part 4 Imagined Geographies
30. Ultima Thule / The North, Graham Huggan
31. Europe, Wendy Bracewell
32. North America / USA, Susan L. Roberson
33. Latin America, Jennifer Hayward
34. The Middle East, Eva Johanna Holmberg
35. India / South Asia, Tabish Khair
36. China, Julia Kuehn
37. Australia, Richard White and Justine Greenwood
38. Sub-Saharan Africa, Laura E. Franey
39. The Polar Regions, Janice Cavell
40. Deserts, Rune Graulund
41. Mountains, Simon Bainbridge
42. The Sea, Steve Mentz
Biography
Carl Thompson is a reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK.
"Readers of this volume will be transported away from a cosy middle-class voyeuristic observation of travel into a serious new world, which offers new perspectives and insights into travel writing. This is a welcome addition to a respected series of volumes, which aim to throw new light on familiar topics. Having approached this volume with the feeling that I was entering familiar territory, I soon realised that the journey had only just begun. With its excellent bibliographies and wealth of references, the way is well signposted."
- Diana Dixon, Freelance reviewer and Editor Local Studies Librarian, Oakham, UK
