A generic history of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature / / by Grzegorz Moroz.

• VerfasserIn: Moroz, Grzegorz,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 93.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages. Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróż was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podróży, and then by the reportaż podróżniczy.

Table of Contents

Travel Writing and Genres: Theories, Taxonomies and Perspectives -- Anglophone and Polish Travel Writing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Crucial Eighteenth Century: the Birth of the Genres of the Travel Book and the Podróż -- Travel Books and Podróże in the Nineteenth Century -- Parallaxes of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Ryszard Kapuściński -- Belated Grand Tourists: Aldous Huxley and Jarosław Iwaszkiewcz -- Conclusion.