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...
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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 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.
