Handbook of British Travel Writing / / ed. by Barbara Schaff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Beilein, Julia,; Bell, Bill,; Bird, Dúnlaith,; Blanton, Casey,; Bohls, Elizabeth A.,; Clark, Stephen,; Constantine, Mary-Ann,; Drautzburg, Anja,; Elze, Jens,; Fekadu-Uthoff, Sarah,; Georgi, Claudia,; Gephardt, Katarina,; Görbert, Johannes,; Haekel, Ralf,; Hannigan, Tim,; Hertel, Ralf,; Johns, Alessa,; Korte, Barbara,; Martin, Alison E.,; Nambula, Katharina,; Pickford, Susan,; Radu, Anca-Raluca,; Reitemeier, Frauke,; Sandrock, Kirsten,; Schaff, Barbara,; Schlegel, Johannes,; Schmid, Susanne,; Sprang, Felix,; Williams, Laurence,
• HerausgeberIn: Schaff, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 618 p.)

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- 0. Introduction -- Part I: Systematic Questions -- 1. Periods of Travel Writing -- 2. Discourses of Travel Writing -- 3. Gender -- 4. Travel Writing and Translation -- 5. Practices and Purposes -- 6. Intertextual Travel Writing -- 7. The Market for Travel Writing -- Part II: Close Readings -- 8. Walter Ralegh, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596) -- 9. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Tour Thro’ The Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1727) -- 10. Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735) -- 11. Thomas Pennant, Selected Works (1754–1804) -- 12. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) -- 13. James Boswell, Journals and Letters from his Grand Tour (1764–1765) -- 14. James Cook and George Forster, Journals and Travel Reports from Their “Voyage Round the World” (1777) -- 15. Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) -- 16. Mariana Starke, Letters from Italy (1800) -- 17. Maria Graham, Travel Writing on India, Italy, Brazil, and Chile (1812–1824) -- 18. Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818) -- 19. Anna Jameson, Selected Works (1826–1859) -- 20. Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) -- 21. Isabella Bird, Selected Works (1856–1899) -- 22. Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897) and West African Studies (1899) -- 23. Vita Sackville-West, Selected Works (1926, 1928) -- 24. Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana (1937) -- 25. Freya Stark, Selected Works (1938–1988) -- 26. W. H. Auden, Journey to a War (1939) -- 27. V. S. Naipaul, Selected Works (1962–1998) -- 28. Dervla Murphy, Selected Works (1965–2015) -- 29. William Dalrymple, Selected Works (1989–1997) -- 30. Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West (1999) and Great British Journeys (2007) -- 31. Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places (2007) -- Index of Names and Works -- Index of Subjects and Places -- List of Contributors