138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
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Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactment of past... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Belated Explorers
Chapter Two: Echotourists and Anti-Tourism
Chapter Three: Echotourism and Masculinity
Chapter Four: Echotourism and Women Writers
Chapter Five: Echotourism and Postmodernism
Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lucas Tromly is an associate professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. He has published in the fields of modernism, comics studies, and Asian North American literature.
