Routledge Research in Travel Writing
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Travel Writing extends the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of travel writing studies. The series was edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, two of the world’s leading scholars in the subject, from its inception until 2023. It publishes important original scholarly studies and edited collections by established and younger authors. The series provides a range of perspectives from international scholars on a variety of travel texts, and aims to extend our contextual and aesthetic understanding of this important but often neglected genre
Transnational Writing on Italy: Self and Place in Contemporary Relocation Narratives
1st Edition
By Lynn Mastellotto
March 17, 2025
Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in serial autobiographical accounts. This book seeks to understand the discourse ...
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, Anne-Florence Quaireau
March 10, 2025
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre. This volume seeks to build bridges between the study of travel writing and disciplines of sciences...
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal’s Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys
1st Edition
By Anandarup Biswas
February 18, 2025
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal’s Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys brings under its critical focus the writings of Bengal’s travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan trails from the mid-nineteenth to the early and mid-twentieth century. Unlike many European ...
Transport Revolution and Travels to Asia, 1860s-1920s
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Ewertowski, Wacław Forajter, Oliwia Gromadzka
February 11, 2025
During the “long” 19th century, a technological revolution occurred, leading to the emergence of new means of transport such as steamships, railways, cars, aeroplanes, bicycles, and rickshaws. This transport revolution not only fundamentally transformed modes of travel and made distant lands more ...
Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing
1st Edition
By Matt Reeck
December 18, 2024
Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French literature where metropolitan authors traveling abroad demonstrate their awareness of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples. During the ...
Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism
1st Edition
By Lucas Tromly
December 18, 2024
Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of ...
Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice
1st Edition
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By Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Uta Schaffers
December 18, 2024
Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and ...
The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950: A Barren Legacy?
1st Edition
By Jenny Walker
August 26, 2024
Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger; more specifically, it is about those who, since 1950, have followed in their literary footsteps. In analysing modern works covering ...
Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61)
1st Edition
By Rebecca Butler
May 31, 2023
With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment ...
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Henrikson, Christina Kullberg
May 31, 2023
This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel genres...
Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy: “Instructions for Travellers,” circa 1750–1850
1st Edition
By Brian P. Cooper
May 31, 2023
The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, ...
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
1st Edition
By Michele Longino
February 12, 2018
Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, ...