Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-318) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Traces the history of travel writing from the sixteenth century to the present, looks at areas around the world historically conducive to writing, and examines travel writing in conjunction with gender, ethnography, and theory.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Companion to travel writing
Parallel Title
Travel writing
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
British-- Foreign countries-- Historiography.
English prose literature-- History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Travel writing-- History.
Travelers-- History.
Travelers' writings, American-- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English-- History and criticism.
Voyages and travels-- Historiography.
Britanniques à l'étranger-- Historiographie.
Écrits de voyageurs américains-- Histoire et critique.
Écrits de voyageurs anglais-- Histoire et critique.
Prose anglaise-- Histoire et critique.
Voyage-- Art d'écrire-- Histoire.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Voyages-- Historiographie.
Voyageurs-- Histoire.
Amerikaans.
British-- Foreign countries-- Historiography.
Engels.
Englisch
English prose literature-- History and criticism.
English prose literature.
Geschichte
Intellectual life.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Reiseliteratur
Travel in literature.
Travel in literature.
Travel writing-- History.
Travel writing.
Travelers-- History.
Travelers' writings, American-- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, American.
Travelers' writings, English-- History and criticism.