Travel writing : the self and the world / Casey Blanton.
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TextSeries: Genres in contextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2002.Edition: 1st Routledge pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 148 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780203819784
- 0203819780
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism
- American prose literature -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- History and criticism
- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- Travel -- Psychological aspects
- Travel writing -- History
- Self in literature
- Écrits de voyageurs anglais -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de voyageurs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Prose américaine -- Histoire et critique
- Prose anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Art d'écrire -- Aspect psychologique
- Voyage -- Aspect psychologique
- Voyage -- Art d'écrire -- Histoire
- Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- American prose literature
- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- English prose literature
- Self in literature
- Travel -- Psychological aspects
- Travel writing
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, English
- Reiseliteratur
- Reisverhalen
- Engels
- Englisch
- 820.9/355 22
- PR756.T72 B57 2002eb
- 18.05
- HG 437
- HG 700
- HG 729
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-142) and index.
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TRAVEL WRITTINGTHE SELF AND THE WORLD ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Chapter 1Narrating Self and Other: A Historical Overview; Chapter 2"Vain Travelers": James Boswell and the Grand Tour; Chapter 3 Victorian Women Travelers: Mary Kingsley; Chapter 4The Modern Psychological Journey: Graham Greene; Chapter 5 Nature-Travel Writing: Peter Matthiessen; Chapter 6"Splenetic Travelers": V.S. Naipaul; Chapter 7"Lying Travelers": Bruce Chatwin; Chapter 8Envoi: Writings of Place and the Poetics of Displacement in the Works of Paul Theroux and Roland Barthes; Notes and References.
Bibliographic EssayRecommended Titles; Index.
Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin.
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