Series Editor's Preface |
vii |
Acknowledgements |
viii |
1. Introduction |
1 |
2. Defining the Genre |
9 |
Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of `Travel Writing' |
12 |
Traveller’s Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing |
27 |
The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing |
30 |
3. Travel Writing through the Ages: An Overview |
34 |
The Ancient World |
35 |
Medieval Travellers and Travel Writing |
37 |
Early Modern Travel Writing |
40 |
The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1837 |
44 |
The Victorian and Edwardian Periods, 1837-1914 |
52 |
Travel Writing from 1914 to the Present |
56 |
4. Reporting the World |
62 |
Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel Writing |
64 |
Epistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gaining the Reader's Trust |
72 |
Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book |
86 |
5. Revealing the Self |
96 |
Grand Tourists, Pilgrims and Questing Knights: Self-Fashioning
in Addison’s Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh’s Discoverie
of Guiana (1596) |
100 |
Writing the Self: Travel Writing’s Inward Turn |
108 |
The Imperious ‘I’? |
118 |
6. Representing the Other |
130 |
Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and Colonial Discourse |
137 |
Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing and Neo-Colonialism |
153 |
Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's Colonialist Tendencies |
162 |
7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality |
168 |
Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing |
173 |
Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's Travel |
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Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteeth Centuries |
180 |
Women Travellers and Colonialism |
191 |
Women's Travel Writing Today |
195 |
Glossary |
199 |
Bibliography and further reading |
207 |
Index |
221 |
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