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Zusatztext "New Directions is thus an important contribution to the burgeoning field of travel writing studies ? . It will surely become a basic (re)source in travel writing studies that I recommend to those who have already ventured into the field and are familiar with the basic tenets and approaches! and to those who are encountering the opportunities offered by the study of the genre and are looking for possible ways to become engaged in this field of research." (Balázs Venkovits! Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies! Vol. 23 (2)! 2017) Informationen zum Autor Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Australia Wendy Bracewell, University College London, UK Steve Clark, University of Tokyo, Japan Vanessa Collingridge, University of Glasgow, UK Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, UK Joseph Gualtieri, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Otto Heim, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Graham Huggan, University of Leeds, UK Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peter J. Kitson, University of East Anglia, UK Julia Kuehn, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Claire Lindsay, University College London, UK Maureen Moynagh, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Paul Smethurst, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland Caitlin Vandertop, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Alex Watson, Japan Women's University, Tokyo Laurence Williams, University of Tokyo, Japan Tim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University, UK Klappentext This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing. Zusammenfassung This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing! with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned! as well as emerging! scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies! as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 and ; 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 ; 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, R...
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"New Directions is thus an important contribution to the burgeoning field of travel writing studies ... . It will surely become a basic (re)source in travel writing studies that I recommend to those who have already ventured into the field and are familiar with the basic tenets and approaches, and to those who are encountering the opportunities offered by the study of the genre and are looking for possible ways to become engaged in this field of research." (Balázs Venkovits, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)
