British Travel Writers, 1910-1939

British Travel Writers, 1910-1939
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Volume 195 of a complete resource for both biographical and analytical coverage on nearly 7,000 literary figures, presented in a familiar format to librarians and other researchers. The series arranges authors in volumes by genre and time period. For fast reference, an author name index is included (cumulative in every volume). Approx.

British Travel Writers, 1910-1939

British Travel Writers, 1910-1939
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 465
Release: 1998
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN:

Essays on British travel writers during a period when travel and travel writing were transformed by education, technology and politics. Air transportation and the automobile impacted travel during this period as did the advent of color film and movie cameras. Travel guides, rather than entertaining and informative travel books for the armchair traveler, were written. This period produced globe-trotters and expatriates who wrote significant bodies of travel literature.

British Travel Writers, 1876-1909

British Travel Writers, 1876-1909
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on British travel writers during a time when professionalism was increasingly the norm, including professional journalists, editors and correspondents accustomed to writing on contract and with deadlines. Includes discussion of scientific societies, which through their journals and meetings sought to encourage explorers to write for the general public as well. This was a period when many technical and economic innovations made travel easier, cheaper and safer.

Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity

Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity
Author: Stacy Burton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107039312

Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.

English Travel Writing From Pilgrimages To Postcolonial Explorations

English Travel Writing From Pilgrimages To Postcolonial Explorations
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1349624713

Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. This volume provides a concise introduction to the basic characteristics and historical development of travel writing as it has emerged in the British Isles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Examples considered include many classics such as Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, Chatwin and Raban, and also lesser known representatives. Types of travel writing discussed include pilgrims' itineraries, exploration writing, tourist accounts as well as postmodern varieties.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3477
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135456623

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index

Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781579584405

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

British Travel Writers, 1940-1997

British Travel Writers, 1940-1997
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on British travel writers explores the political and social changes that occurred after World War II. Technology such as color television, home video, the Internet and CD-ROM's brought people pictures from around the world broadened their interest in travel. Includes discussion of the various types of travel literature, including political, scientific, historical, and adventurous as well as the role of women travel writers.

从岛国到帝国——近现代英国旅行文学研究

从岛国到帝国——近现代英国旅行文学研究
Author: 张德明著
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

本书系统考察了其发展历程;对旅行文学涉及的空间想象、帝国崛起、主体意识的形成、近代小说的兴起、现代美学观念的形成,以及跨文化交往与沟通等一系列问题展开探讨,并提出了自己独到的看法;既是一次知识的考古,也是一场精神王国的漫长旅行。

Handbook of British Travel Writing

Handbook of British Travel Writing
Author: Barbara Schaff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110498979

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.