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The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing

Edited By Alasdair Pettinger, Tim Youngs Copyright 2020
422 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

List of Figures



Notes on Contributors



Introduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs



Part One: Framing Travel







  1. The Scientific Traveller / Angela Byrne






  2. Nature Writing / Paul Smethurst






  3. Migrant Narratives / Aedín Ní Loingsigh






  4. The Expatriate Life / Lynn Mastellotto






  5. Travelling in Pairs / Kathryn N. Jones






  6. Footsteps / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth






  7. Vertical Travel / Charles Forsdick


Part Two: Modes of Writing







  1. Letters / Eve Tavor Bannet






  2. Diaries and Journals / Christina Laffin






  3. Guidance and Advice / Alasdair Pettinger






  4. Narrative / John Culbert






  5. Description / Benjamin Colbert






  6. Lectures / Tom F. Wright


Part Three: Sensuous Geographies







  1. Seeing / Margaret Topping






  2. Hearing / Tim Youngs






  3. Touching / Sarah Jackson






  4. Tasting / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee






  5. Smelling / Clare Brant


Part Four: Interactions







  1. Hospitality / Kevin J. James






  2. Foreign Exchange / David Murray






  3. Between Languages / Michael Cronin






  4. Animals / Elizabeth Leane


Part Five: Paratexts







  1. Editorial Matters / Michael G. Brennan






  2. Maps / James R. Akerman






  3. Book and Print Technology / Innes Keighren




Works Cited



Index

Biography

Alasdair Pettinger is an independent scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published on travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His books include the anthology Always Elsewhere (1998) and Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 (2018).



Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, 2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (edited with Nandini Das, 2019).

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