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The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of cross-disciplinary academic interest in travel writing. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best research from scholars around the world. The collection also features pieces by travel writers themselves discussing their work, including:
Michael Cronin on travel and translation
Robyn Davidson interviewed by Tim Youngs
Peter Hulme on Columbus
David Espey on Americans in Vietnam
John Hutnyk on Calcutta
Charles Forsdick on French travel writing
Mary Louise Pratt on travel-writing scholarship
Richard White on Australian travellers.
Volume1 focuses on the production of travel writing; Volume 2 on the contexts of travel writing; Volume 3 on modes of travel and types of traveller; and Volume 4 on critical approaches to travel writing.
Contents
Volume I
Part 1: Writing Travel
1. Jonathan Raban, ‘The Journey and the Book’, For Love and Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling, 1969–1987 (Collins Harvill, 1987), pp. 253–60.
2. Ella Maillart, ‘My Philosophy of Travel’, Traveller’s Quest: Original Contributions Towards a Philosophy of Travel (William Hodge, 1950), pp. 114–26.
3. Tim Youngs, ‘Interview with Robyn Davidson’, Studies in Travel Writing, March 2005, 9, 1, 21–36.
4. Colin Thubron, ‘Travel Writing Today: Its Rise and Its Dilemma’, in A. N. Wilson (ed.), Essays by Diverse Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature (Boydell, 1984), pp. 167–81.
Part 2: Editing and Publishing Travel
5. Daniel Carey, ‘Hakluyt’s Instructions: The Principal Navigations and Sixteenth-Century Travel Advice’, Studies in Travel Writing, 2009, 13, 2, 167–85.
6. David Henige, ‘Tractable Texts: Modern Editing and the Columbian Writings’, in Germainein (ed.), Critical Issues in Editing Exploration Texts: Papers Given at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 6–7 November 1992 (University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp. 1–35.
7. J. C. Beaglehole, ‘Some Problems of Editing Cook’s Journals’, Historical Studies, 1957, 8, 1–12.
8. Gary E. Moulton, ‘Editorial Procedures’ for The Journals of Lewis and Clark (lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu).
9. MarieNoëlle Bourguet, ‘A Portable World: The Notebooks of European Travellers’, Intellectual History Review, 2010, 20, 3, 377–400.
10. C. W. J. Withers and I. M. Keighren, ‘Travels into Print: Authoring, Editing and Narratives of Travel, c. 1815–c. 1857’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011, 36, 560–73.
11. Charles Sugnet, ‘Vile Bodies, Vile Places: Travelling with Granta’, Transition, 1991, 51, 70–85.
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