{"product_id":"travel-writing-in-an-age-of-global-quarantine-9781785278044","title":"Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTravel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine\u003c\/em\u003e is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect. \u003cem\u003eTravel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine\u003c\/em\u003e presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic ‘rules’ by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This captivating collection of personal, historical essays engages in a dialogue with the past through the shared experience of travel. Evocatively written, \u003cem\u003eTravel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine\u003c\/em\u003e raises questions about the relationship between time, space and belonging. Written in the context of lockdown due to the global pandemic, the authors grapple with the meaning of travel for themselves and the worlds beyond the locality that they are now prohibited from entering or passing through.”— Onni Gust, Professor, University of Nottingham, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention: here the immobility imposed by the global Covid pandemic has birthed a set of fascinating, thought-provoking and genre-blurring essays. Spanning the local and the remote, the seemingly humdrum and the supposedly exotic, Robinson and Fisher's volume raises compelling questions about the multiple, intricate layerings and interweavings – of self, place and other, of past and present, of imagination, history and empirical experience – that inevitably shape both travel and travel writing.” — Carl Thompson, Reader in English Literature, University of Surrey, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword; Acknowledgements; Introduction, David Robinson and Gary F. Fisher; Chapter One ‘Off-Stage, A War’: Wuhan, 1938, Jonathan Chatwin; Chapter Two Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911, Ross Balzaretti; Chapter Three ‘A Rude People Subjected to No Restraint’: In Tanimbar with Anna Keith Forbes, Henry Forbes and So’u Melatunan, Will Buckingham; Chapter Four Sent to Coventry: A Journey Home?, David Civil; Chapter Five Bedouin Is a Place: Freya Stark’s Travel with Nomads, EmmaLucy Cole; Chapter Six With Wilkie in the West: Reading Wilkie Collins’s Rambles beyond Railways from a Cornish Perspective, Tim Hannigan; Chapter Seven Picturing Rome: Walking the Eternal City with the Last Victorian, Tory Hayward; Chapter Eight Su e zo per i ponti; or, How History Does Not Help, David Laven; Chapter Nine A Town Called Entropy: Boom and Bust in Arnold Bennett’s Potteries, Gary F. Fisher; Chapter Ten Travelling towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Kate Law; Chapter Eleven Recollections of the King’s House, David Robinson; Chapter Twelve Occupying Her Time: Ginette Eboué, France, 1940–42, Sarah Frank; Epilogue, David Robinson and Gary F. Fisher; List of Contributors; Works Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042342502743,"sku":"9781785278044","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785278044.jpg?v=1750953963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/travel-writing-in-an-age-of-global-quarantine-9781785278044","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}