Title & Author:

Writes of passage : reading travel writing / edited by James Duncan and Derek Gregory.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Description:

vi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Limited visions of Africa: geographies of savagery and civility in early eighteenth-century narratives / Roxann Wheeler -- Enlightenment travels: the making of epiphany in Tibet / Laurie Hovell McMillin -- Writing travel and mapping sexuality: Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone / Richard Phillips -- Flight from Lucknow: British women travelling and writing home, 1857-8 / Alison Blunt -- Scripting Egypt: Orientalism and the cultures of travel / Derek Gregory -- Dis-Orientation: on the shock of the familiar in a far-away place / James Duncan -- Exoticism of the familiar and the familiarity of the exotic: fin-de-siecle travellers to Greece / Robert Shannan Peckham -- Travelling through the closet / Michael Brown -- Writing over the map of Provence: the touristic therapy of A year in Provence / Joanne P. Sharp.

Summary:

These essays focus primarily on British travel writers from the 18th and 19th century and explore the tensions between imaginary and real geographical difference.

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ISBN:

0415160138
9780415160131
0415160146 (pbk.)
9780415160148 (pbk.)
9780203054543 (ebk.)
0203054547

Subject:

Travel writing.
Travel in literature.
Travel 18th century.
Travel 19th century.
Voyages, Imaginary History and criticism.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Voyage Art d'écrire.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Voyages imaginaires.
Voyage 18e siècle.
Voyage 19e siècle.
Voyages imaginaires Histoire et critique.
REFERENCE Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Rhetoric.
Travel.
Reiseliteratur
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Geografische aspecten.
Travel History 18th century.
Travel History 19th century.
Récits de voyage Histoire.
Perception géographique Histoire.
Géographie Dans la littérature.
Voyages imaginaires Dans la littérature.
Récits de voyages anglais 18e siècle.
Récits de voyages anglais 19e siècle.
Voyage Dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise Thèmes, motifs.
reizen
travel
knutselboeken
activity books
geografie
geography
lezen
reading
geschiedenis
history
cultuurgeschiedenis
cultural history
History (General)
Geschiedenis (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Voyages, Imaginary.
Aufsatzsammlung.
travelog (performed works genre)
travelers’ writings.
Travel writing.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Récits de voyages.

Added entries:

Duncan, James S.
Gregory, Derek, 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205267
Call No.: G151 .W75 1999
Status: Available