Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia. An additional key feature of the volume will be its inclusion of different types of traveller. Several types of travellers and travel texts are considered in the collection. The volume includes studies of explorers, missionaries, artists and writers, Romantics and socialists, colonialists and indigenes. It covers, therefore, a range of travels, travellers, and travellers' texts, and aims to establish some of the contexts in which travel took place. This volume is as much about departure points as it is about destinations, revealing the prejudices and precepts of the nineteenth-century traveller.
Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia.
'This volume will be required reading for anyone seriously interested in nineteenth-century concepts of culture and civilization.' —David Seed, Chair of American Literature, University of Liverpool
Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. He is the author of 'Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850-1900' (Manchester University Press, 1994) and editor of 'Writing and Race' (Longman, 1997).
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
---|---|---|---|
Front Matter\r | 1 | ||
Half Title\r | 1 | ||
Series Page\r | 2 | ||
Title\r | 3 | ||
Copyright\r | 4 | ||
Contents\r | 5 | ||
List of Illustrations\r | 7 | ||
Notes on Contributors\r | 9 | ||
Acknowledgements\r | 13 | ||
Main Body\r | 15 | ||
1. Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces, By Tim Youngs | 15 | ||
Blank spaces | 15 | ||
Girdling the Earth\r | 18 | ||
Tourism\r | 20 | ||
Rolling-stock\r | 21 | ||
Photography\r | 24 | ||
The essays\r | 25 | ||
Works Cited\r | 30 | ||
2. The Balkans in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing, by Vesna Goldsworthy\r | 33 | ||
Introduction: Where exactly are the Balkans?\r | 33 | ||
On the shores of Illyria: British travellers in the Balkans in the 1800s\r | 36 | ||
Fighting the Balkan Wars\r | 41 | ||
Writing the Balkans: experience and imagination\r | 45 | ||
Notes\r | 47 | ||
Works cited\r | 47 | ||
3. Touring in Extremis: Travel and Adventure in the Congo, by Stephen Donovan\r | 51 | ||
Exploring and pioneering, 1870 to 1900\r | 54 | ||
Sport, science and spectacle, 1890-1910\r | 59 | ||
Tourism after 1910\r | 63 | ||
Notes\r | 64 | ||
Works cited\r | 65 | ||
4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East, by Geoffrey Nash\r | 69 | ||
Favoured and less-favoured peoples and nations\r | 73 | ||
Individual travellers and their quests\r | 75 | ||
Conclusion\r | 79 | ||
Notes\r | 80 | ||
Works cited\r | 81 | ||
5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh, by Indira Ghose | 85 | ||
Notes\r | 98 | ||
Works cited\r | 99 | ||
6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain, by Michael H. Fisher\r | 101 | ||
Early travellers and travel accounts: Europe and India\r | 102 | ||
The authors and their chosen genre\r | 104 | ||
The authors' multiple role and readers \r | 108 | ||
Representations of Britons\r | 111 | ||
Conclusion\r | 114 | ||
Notes\r | 116 | ||
Works cited\r | 117 | ||
7. A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Hajj, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley\r | 121 | ||
Introduction: women travellers, Muslim travellers\r | 121 | ||
Bhopal, paramountcy and the Indian pilgrimage\r | 124 | ||
Writing a Muslim journey in a colonial environment\r | 126 | ||
Defining the Self against a Muslim Other\r | 131 | ||
An alternative construction of 'the Orient'\r | 134 | ||
'Viewing things from an Oriental point of view': conclusions\r | 137 | ||
Notes\r | 139 | ||
Works cited\r | 139 | ||
8. A Yankee in Yucatan: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of America, by Nigel Leask\r | 143 | ||
Discovering, describing, purchasing\r | 143 | ||
Travel writing and the politics of federation\r | 148 | ||
'They rise like skeletons from the grave ...'\r | 150 | ||
Death, decay, resurrection\r | 153 | ||
Notes\r | 157 | ||
Works cited\r | 157 | ||
9. George Lewis and the American Churches, by Alasdair Pettinger\r | 159 | ||
Introduction\r | 159 | ||
Slavery, abolitionism and travel writing\r | 161 | ||
Weeping\r | 163 | ||
Listening\r | 168 | ||
Conclusion\r | 172 | ||
Notes\r | 174 | ||
Works cited\r | 174 | ||
10. Strategies of Travel: Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown, by Tim Youngs\r | 177 | ||
Chewing on slavery\r | 177 | ||
The strategic traveller\r | 180 | ||
The travelling slave\r | 186 | ||
Notes\r | 190 | ||
Works cited\r | 191 | ||
11. Missionary Positions: Romantic European Polynesias from cook to Stevenson, by Sarah Johnson\r | 193 | ||
Paradise found\r | 193 | ||
Fertile imagination\r | 198 | ||
The Fall of Tahiti\r | 199 | ||
Love in idleness\r | 201 | ||
All work and no play...\r | 204 | ||
Re-shaping, re-writing\r | 205 | ||
From sexuality to sentimentality\r | 208 | ||
Notes\r | 210 | ||
Works cited\r | 211 | ||
12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia, by Anna Johnston\r | 215 | ||
British visions of Australasia\r | 216 | ||
Religious travellers and narratives\r | 219 | ||
Religious travel writing and representation\r | 223 | ||
Conclusion\r | 229 | ||
Notes\r | 229 | ||
Works cited\r | 230 | ||
13. A Young Writer's Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's 'The Urewera Notebook' by Anne Maxwell | 233 | ||
Aesthetic versus realist style\r | 234 | ||
An authentic New Zealand\r | 238 | ||
Mansfield and the Tuhoe\r | 242 | ||
Mansfield and settler culture\r | 244 | ||
A modern sensibility: Old world versus New\r | 246 | ||
Notes\r | 247 | ||
Works cited\r | 249 | ||
End Matter\r | 251 | ||
Further Reading\r | 251 | ||
Index\r | 255 |