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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
Trade Review“New Directions is thus an important contribution to the burgeoning field of travel writing studies … . It will surely become a basic (re)source in travel writing studies that I recommend to those who have already ventured into the field and are familiar with the basic tenets and approaches, and to those who are encountering the opportunities offered by the study of the genre and are looking for possible ways to become engaged in this field of research.” (Balázs Venkovits, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst PART I: TEXTUALITY 1. 'A Study not a Rapture': Isabella Bird on Japan; Steve Clark 2. On Top of the World: Tourist's Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing; Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski 3. The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature; Alex Watson PART II: TOPOLOGY 4. Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe; Joseph Gualtieri 5. 'That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China's stupendous mound!' Romantic Period Accounts of China's 'Great Wall'; Peter Kitson 6. 'Habits of a landscape': the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places and The Old Ways; Paul Smethurst PART III: MOBILITY 7. Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies; Charles Forsdick 8. Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious; Caitlin Vandertop 9. 'Take out your machine': Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel; Tim Youngs PART IV: MAPPING 10. 'The Thing which is not': Mapping the Fantastic History of the Southern Continent; Vanessa Collingridge 11. Locating Guam: The Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez's Re-mapping of Unincorporated Territory; Otto Heim 12. Map Reading in Travel Writing: The 'Explorers' Maps' of Mexico, This Month; Claire Lindsay PART V: ALTERITY 13. The Travellee's Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750-1850; Wendy Bracewell 14. Anthropology/ Travel/ Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell; Graham Huggan PART VI: GLOBALITY 15. Travel and Utopia; Bill Ashcroft 16. Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878; Julia Kuehn 17. Afropolitan Travels: 'Discovering Home' and the World in Africa; Maureen Moynagh 18. Revising the 'Contact Zone': William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860; Laurence Williams Index
