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9780415825245 | Routledge, December 3, 2015, cover price $225.00
Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience. Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why. This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present, addressing the work of canonical authors such as T. E. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, and Rebecca West; best-sellers by Peter Fleming and H. V. Morton; and texts by Colin Thubron, Andrew X. Pham, Rosemary Mahoney, and others. It argues that the genre's most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence, cultural upheaval, and decline. It will interest scholars and students of travel writing, modernism and postmodernism, English and American literature, and the history and sociology of travel.
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9781107039315 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 25, 2013, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience.
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9781107539754 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 9, 2015, cover price $29.99
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9781472457097 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 16, 2015, cover price $104.95
Product Description: The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts cover almost four centuries of travel and range from Mary Wortley Montagu's incomparable earlyeighteenth-century 'Turkish' letters to the publications of twentieth-century archaeologists, journalists, diplomatic wives and flamboyant adventurers...read more
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9780198702474, titled "Western Women Travelling East, 1716-1916: Western Women Writing About the East, 1716-1916" | Oxford Univ Pr, December 30, 2014, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East.
Product Description: The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise...read more
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9781138023529 | Routledge, July 25, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing.
Product Description: This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts...read more
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9780748692958 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination.
Product Description: Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie. By focusing on the under-considered influence of the authors' own travel writing on their later work, this book bridges two critical fields: travel writing and transnational literary studies...read more
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9781137332455 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 23, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.
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9780773443259 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 15, 2014, cover price $169.95 | About this edition: A book that is suitable for researchers in nineteenth-century literature as well as comparative literary scholars and non-specialist readers and enthusiasts of Romantic travel writing and women's literature.
Product Description: Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand...read more
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9780521874472 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 27, 2013, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues.
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9780521697392 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 27, 2013, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues.
Product Description: Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. A variety of literary genres are examined to discover how authors described the landscape, climate, flora and fauna of America, particularly of the new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia...read more
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9781409406631 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745.
Product Description: Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceaniaââ¬â¢s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children...read more
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9781409457114 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination.
Product Description: Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing...read more
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9781137035356 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.
Product Description: Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses...read more
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9781409432999 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece.
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9780754668602 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 28, 2012, cover price $149.95
Product Description: Exploring the intersections of memory, gender, and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of womenâs travel writing. Building on criticism of memory and travel writing, Sarah De Mul seeks to open Dutch literature to postcolonial themes and concepts and to insert the history of the Dutch colonies and its critical recollection into the traditionally Anglophone-dominated field of postcolonial studies...read more
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9789089642936 | Amsterdam Univ Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Exploring the intersections of memory, gender, and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of womenâs travel writing.
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9781575911588 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $70.00
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9780872209350 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 11, 2011, cover price $14.00
Product Description: An increasingly popular genre â addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics â travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates  provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present day explores the autobiographical dimensions of the form looks at both men and womenâs travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal works, drawn from both the colonial and postcolonial era utilises both British and American travelogues to consider the genre's role in shaping the history of both nations...read more
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9780415444644 | Routledge, July 12, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: An increasingly popular genre â addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics â travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.
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9780415444651 | Routledge, July 12, 2011, cover price $26.95
Product Description: Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914â1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world historyâin India and elsewhere on the globe...read more
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9780761839491 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 28, 2008, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914â1948.
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9781931255059, titled "Wondrous Magic: Images of the Orient in 18th and 19th Centuries' British Women Travel Writing" | Galda & Wich Verlag, September 1, 2001, cover price $55.01
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9780415046299 | Routledge, December 13, 1991, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: First published in 1993.
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9780415096645 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 1993), cover price $45.95
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