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New directions in travel writing studies

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BL18960

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New directions in travel writing studies

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edited by Julia Kuehn, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong ; Paul Smethurst, Associate Professor of English, University of Hong Kong

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Palgrave

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xiii, 325 pages : illustrations

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Travel writing

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LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading

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TRAVEL / General

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Machine generated contents note: -- List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; Julia Kuehn and Paul SmethurstPART I: TEXTUALITY1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan; Steve Clark2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing; Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature; Alex WatsonPART II: TOPOLOGY4. Metaphor, Travel, and the )Un(making of the Steppe; Joseph Gualtieri5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall'; Peter Kitson6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places and The Old Ways; Paul SmethurstPART III: MOBILITY7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies; Charles Forsdick8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious; Caitlin Vandertop9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel; Tim YoungsPART IV: MAPPING10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent; Vanessa Collingridge11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory; Otto Heim12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of Mexico, This Month; Claire LindsayPART V: ALTERITY13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850; Wendy Bracewell14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell; Graham HugganPART VI: GLOBALITY15. Travel and Utopia; Bill Ashcroft16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878; Julia Kuehn17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa; Maureen Moynagh18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860; Laurence WilliamsIndex.

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AU

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AU

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Kuehn, Julia,

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Smethurst, Paul,