Travel Writing

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Defining the Genre
3. Travel Writing Through the Ages
4. Reporting the World
5. Revealing the Self
6. Representing the Other
7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality
8. Travel Writing Now: Continuities, Translations, Transformations

About the author

Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (2007), Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (2013) and The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2016).

Summary

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Thompson, Carl (Nottingham Trent University Thompson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9780367492359
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49235-9
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: The New Critical Idiom
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Sociolinguistics, Literary theory, Human Geography, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides