The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
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| Title: | The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing |
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| Description: | Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors'introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments. |
| Authors: | Alasdair Pettinger, Tim Youngs |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Travelers' writings--History and criticism, Travel writing--History |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors'introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments. |
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| ISBN: | 9781472417923 9781032090788 9781317041191 9781317041207 9781315613710 |
