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Traveling Bodies analyzes the central role bodies have in the experience and mediation of travel. Presenting Asian, European, and American perspectives, the case studies focus on historical and contemporary travel narratives, (new) media (e.g., film, travel apps), surf culture, and tattoo art.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
- Traveling Bodies: An Introduction
Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers
I: The Body as Concept and Metaphor
- The Scientist-Traveler and the Woman-as Land: Sexual Topographies in A New Description of Merryland (1741)
Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
- From Facts to Physicality: Body Concepts in German Travel Writing Around 1800
Sonja Klein
- Motherhood and the Embodied Traveler in Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Elizabeth Zold
II: Other Bodies
- Beasts on Board: Traveling Animals and Pacific Voyages in the First Two Ages of Exploration
Mira Shah
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the Body of her Letters, or: The Traveler Lost and Found in Scandinavia
Michael Meyer
- "The most dirtiest children": Spectacles of Otherness on the American Frontier
Nicole Maruo-Schröder
III: Crossing Borders: The Body and its Liminal Zones
- "My condition gets worse day by day": Controlling Traveling Bodies on the Move in Edo-Period Japan
Andreas Niehaus
- "The 'Food Question' is said to be the most important one for all travelers": Eating in Travel Writing
Uta Schaffers
- Going Undercover? Female Bodies and Clothes under Scrutiny in Travel Literature
Sofie Decock
IV: Mobility, Perception, Experience
- Surfing Wanderlust: Surf Tripping Bodies as Cultural Bearers
Anne Barjolin-Smith
- Traveling Bodies in Film: Embodied Encounters and Negotiating Selves
Anne von Petersdorff-Campen
- Tattooed Cartographies and the Displaced Body in an Age of Political Conflict
Karly Etz
- Strolling through the City on a Self-Guided Tour: Embodied Engagement with the Urban Space
Nora Winsky
Index
About the author
Nicole Maruo-Schröder is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, material (food) culture, travel writing, intersectionality, and visual culture. Publications include co-edited collections on
Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America (2014),
Space, Place, and Narrative (2016), and
Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2018) as well as a monograph on
Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature (2006). A current book project focuses on literature and consumption.
Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research centers on women, gender, sexuality studies, and medical humanities. She is the author of
The Gendered Body: Female Sanctity, Gender Hybridity and the Body in
Women's Hagiography (2016) and co-editor of
Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture (2020) and
Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture (2023).
Uta Schaffers is Professor of German Literature and Didactics at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her main research areas include travel writing (various articles and the co-edited volume
(Off) the Beaten Track? Normierungen und Kanonisierungen des Reisens; 2018) with special focus on Japan (
Konstruktionen der Fremde. Erfahren, verschriftlicht und erlesen am Beispiel Japan; 2006) and the Swiss travel writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach (see the editions of Schwarzenbach's works), traveling bodies, and East-Asia in literature, as well as economics and literature.
Summary
Traveling Bodies analyzes the central role bodies have in the experience and mediation of travel. Presenting Asian, European, and American perspectives, the case studies focus on historical and contemporary travel narratives, (new) media (e.g., film, travel apps), surf culture, and tattoo art.
