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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic 'authority', each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, 'accompanied' by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.
List of contents
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction, David Robinson and Gary F. Fisher; Chapter One 'Off-Stage, A War': Wuhan, 1938, Jonathan Chatwin; Chapter Two Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911, Ross Balzaretti; Chapter Three 'A Rude People Subjected to No Restraint': In Tanimbar with Anna Keith Forbes, Henry Forbes and So'u Melatunan, Will Buckingham; Chapter Four Sent to Coventry: A Journey Home?, David Civil; Chapter Five Bedouin Is a Place: Freya Stark's Travel with Nomads, EmmaLucy Cole; Chapter Six With Wilkie in the West: Reading Wilkie Collins's Rambles beyond Railways from a Cornish Perspective, Tim Hannigan; Chapter Seven Picturing Rome: Walking the Eternal City with the Last Victorian, Tory Hayward; Chapter Eight Su e zo per i ponti; or, How History Does Not Help, David Laven; Chapter Nine A Town Called Entropy: Boom and Bust in Arnold Bennett's Potteries, Gary F. Fisher; Chapter Ten Travelling towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Kate Law; Chapter Eleven Recollections of the King's House, David Robinson; Chapter Twelve Occupying Her Time: Ginette Eboué, France, 1940-42, Sarah Frank; Epilogue, David Robinson and Gary F. Fisher; List of Contributors; Works Cited.
About the author
After a long career in the business world, David P. Robinson completed his PhD in History in 2020. His research interests have been, predominantly, concerned with how British travel in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries helped to shape a British liberal-bourgeois identity.
Gary F. Fisher is an inter-disciplinary teacher and researcher in the Liberal Arts tradition, with interests ranging from the history of education to twentieth-century literature.
