Titlebook: New Directions in Travel Writing Studies; Julia Kuehn (Associate Professor of English),Paul Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and T

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Introductionere mainly attached to historical and regional studies or used to support author-based literary studies. Although travel writing from the period of European exploration onwards was published in huge quantities and was very popular — or perhaps partly because of this — its poetics, form and themes ne

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On Top of the World: Tourist’s Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writingl phenomenon, precipitated in great part by the transnational trading of goods, services and information, as well as by new, high-speed communication technologies. For others, globalization is part of a much longer, historical trajectory and, as such, is best thought of as the latest reordering of c

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The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literaturerds, epigraphs and footnotes — that mediate between reader and text, which he labels ‘paratexts’. Paratexts are ubiquitous in travel writing: from the ‘The Epistle Dedicatorie’ beginning Richard Hakluyt’s . (1582) to the self-consciously literary epigraphs in Peter Matthiessen’s . (1978) and glossar

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Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe examines two organizing spatial metaphors with particular relevance to travel writing: the . and the .. While each text refers to the same topography, they tend towards one or other of these metaphors in representing how the spaces of the steppe are imagined and lived. The result is that each yield

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‘That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China’s stupendous mound!’ Romantic Period Accounts of China’s ‘Gresting ways our understanding of Enlightenment and Romantic period travel writing. This essay discusses the first British encounter with the Great Wall in the accounts of the Macartney embassy of 1792–94. Applying a combination of historical contextualization with aesthetic-materialist understanding

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‘Habits of a landscape’: the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane’s , and great potential for travel writing studies. Unlike the single-issue politics of eco-criticism, geocriticism calls for a broad recontextualization of place as the nexus of sustainable and inclusive communities.. As defined by Bertrand Westphal,. geocriticism takes its conceptual lead from the ‘spatia

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Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographiesurn’, that is, ‘a(chǎn)n explicit commitment to the goal of pursuing a global or transnational vision for the field’.. Citing two recent issues of the . — devoted to ‘Disabling Postcolonialism’, and the ‘Geopolitics of Disability’ — Fraser reveals the genuinely enabling possibilities of understanding what

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Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconsciouse roads and tunnels guiding human movement, to the networks of electric cables and pipelines channelling flows of energy and information. For many in the industrialized world, infrastructure has come to form a Lukácsian ‘second nature’ that remains invisible due to its sheer ubiquity; for this reaso