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
Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850
1st Edition
By Kathryn Walchester
December 13, 2021
This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts ...
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years: Radical Departures
1st Edition
By Martyn Cornick, Martin Hurcombe, Angela Kershaw
December 10, 2019
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the ...
Impressions of Southern Italy: British Travel Writing from Henry Swinburne to Norman Douglas
1st Edition
By Sharon Ouditt
December 10, 2019
Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired ...
Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, Gary Totten
December 10, 2019
This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts ...
Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture
1st Edition
By K.J. James
December 10, 2019
This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist ...
Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing
1st Edition
By Margarita Marinova
December 10, 2019
In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian ...
Travel Writing from Black Australia: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality
1st Edition
By Robert Clarke
December 10, 2019
Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian ...
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930: Modernity, Regionality, Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Martin, Lut Missinne, Beatrix van Dam
December 10, 2019
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now ...
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Broome Saunders
December 10, 2019
The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity 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, ...
Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, Ludmilla Kostova
February 06, 2018
Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies ...
Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Martin, Susan Pickford
May 31, 2017
This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge ...