English Travel Writing From Pilgrimages To Postcolonial Explorations

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Overview

Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. This volume provides a concise introduction to the basic characteristics and historical development of travel writing as it has emerged in the British Isles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Examples considered include many classics such as Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, Chatwin and Raban, and also lesser known representatives. Types of travel writing discussed include pilgrims' itineraries, exploration writing, tourist accounts as well as postmodern varieties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312226633
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/15/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Tübingen.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Traveling Pleasure--Reading Pleasure
• Charting the Genre
• Paths to the Real World
• Paths to the Self
• The Home Tour
• Travel Writing in the 19th Century
• Women's Travel Writing
• British Travel Writing in the 20th Century
• Postcolonial Travel Writing in the 20th Century

Editorial Reviews

[An] admirable lucid survey of English travel writing from the Middle Ages to the present...a fascinating subject.
—The Times Literary Supplement

A.N. Wilson