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
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 ...
Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo
1st Edition
By Robert Burroughs
April 23, 2015
This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, ...
Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America
1st Edition
By Claire Lindsay
September 11, 2014
This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in large part by myriad Euro-American travelers? ...
Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst
October 26, 2012
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath. ...
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts
1st Edition
By Leila Koivunen
September 19, 2011
This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, ...