322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.
Considering a wide range of primary sources from Sir Walter Raleigh to Jenny Diski, the extensively updated second edition:
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1. Introduction
2. Defining the Genre
3. Travel Writing Through the Ages
4. Reporting the World
5. Revealing the Self
6. Representing the Other
7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality
8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations
Biography
Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (2007), Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (2013) and The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2016).
