"Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogenous genre. This volume seeks to build bridges between the study of travel writing and disciplines of sciences and human sciences so that the analyses of travel texts, images and objects lead to interdisciplinary enrichment. The volume revisits the complicated relationship between fact and fiction, science and literature, and the world and the word through transdisciplinary approaches. Through case studies of British travel writing from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, the contributors provide illustrations of the fruitful intersection of travel writing studies with other methodologies, such as literary studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, visual studies, areal studies, engineering studies, food studies, animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism and geocriticism"--
It traces the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogenous genre. The book revisits the complicated relationship between fact and fiction, science and literature, and the world and the word through pioneering transdisciplinary and transmedial approaches.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre. This volume seeks to build bridges between the study of travel writing and disciplines of sciences and human sciences so that the analyses of travel texts, images, and objects lead to interdisciplinary enrichment. This volume revisits the complicated relationship between fact and fiction, science and literature, and the world and the word through transdisciplinary approaches. Through case studies of British travel writing from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the contributors provide illustrations of the fruitful intersection of travel writing studies with other methodologies, such as literary studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, visual studies, areal studies, engineering studies, food studies, animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and geocriticism.
Foreword
Jean Vivičs
Introduction
Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, Anne-Florence Quaireau
More than Just a Travel Book. Regarding Travel Writing.
Tim Youngs
Chapter
1. From the Visited Place to the Visitors Gaze: Decentering
Perspectives on Nice and its Region in Smolletts Travels through France and
Italy (1766)
Nathalie Bernard
Chapter
2. Women Travellers Decentering the South through Nordicity: Mary
Wollstonecraft, the Wilmot Sisters and Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake
Stéphanie Gourdon
Chapter
3. Unearthing Imperial Matters: a Postcolonial and Ecocritical
Reading of Louisa Anne Meredith's Notes and Sketches of New South Wales
(1844) and My Home in Tasmania during a Residence of Nine Years (1852)
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
Chapter
4. A broader, truer glimpse of existence: Ella Sykess
Post-Romantic, Affective Realism in Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898)
Julia Kuehn
Chapter
5. A Geopoetic Approach to fin de sičcle Adventure Travel Writing: R.
L. Stevenson and Joseph Conrad as Writer-Geographers
Julie Gay
Chapter
6. Travel Writing and Engineering: Experiential and Textual Hybridity
in the Works of David and Robert Louis Stevenson
Kevin Cristin
Chapter
7. Photography in Isabella Birds Asian Travel Accounts: the Birth of
a Personal Practice and Renewal of a Genre
Floriane Reviron-Piégay
Chapter
8. Tristram Shandy goes to Greece: Patrick Leigh Fermors Mani
(1958)
Anne Rouhette
Chapter
9. Black flight-feathers spread like tight-rope-walkers fingers:
Walking, Flying, and Reading the Sonorous World with Patrick Leigh Fermor
Isabelle Keller-Privat
Chapter
10. Harbingers of Taste: Mid-Twentieth Century Womens Food-Focused
Travel Writings as a new Paradigm in Travel Writings and their Studies
Virginia Terry Sherman
Chapter
11. The Quest for the Lost Parrot: Trivial Travel in Julian Barness
Flauberts Parrot
Christian Gutleben
Chapter
12. Writing Countertravels and Decolonising Environmental
Epistemologies in Jamaica Kincaids Among Flowers. A Walk in the Himalaya
Pauline Amy de la Bretčque
Chapter
13. Travel Writing as a Conscious Reading of the World: an
Ecocritical Approach of Henry Russell-Killough and Kev Reynolds' texts
Franēoise Besson
Chapter
14. The Land Looks Empty. Writing the Far East in Colin
Thubrons The Amur (2021)
Jan Borm
Chapter
15. Can Travel-Writing be Decolonised?: A Flat Place (2023) by Noreen
Masud
Jaine Chemmachery
Index
Samia Ounoughi is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Université Grenoble Alpes. She is a member of LIDILEM (Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Étrangčres et Maternelles). She is also a member of LABEX ITTEM (Laboratoire dExcellence Innovations et Transitions Territoriales en Montagne) where she works with geographers, cartographers, and historians. She was the vice-president of SELVA from 2019 to 2023. Her research deals with the relations between language and space, and she specialises in corpus discourse analysis of mountain travel writing. She has co-edited Exceptions and Exceptionality in Travel Writing with Anne-Florence Quaireau (Studies in Travel Writing, 2020). Her other publications tackle the process of mountain nomination (Referential Conventions as Compromise, in Reference: From Conventions to Pragmatics, John Benjamins, 2023). She is the co-editor of Writing on the Move with Tim Hannigan (forthcoming: 2025).
Emmanuelle Peraldo is Professor of British literature at Université Cōte dAzur, Nice, and Director of the CTELA (Centre Transdisciplinaire dÉpistémologie de la Littérature et des Arts vivants, UPR6307). From 2019 to 2023, she was the president of SELVA, a French learned society devoted to the study of travel literature in English. Her PhD, obtained in 2008, was on Defoe and the writing of history (Champion, 2010). Since then, she has been working on the link between geography and literature in the eighteenth century (which was the title of her habilitation to supervise research), and more particularly in Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. Her interests lie in the field of travel writing, novels of the eighteenth century, ecocriticism, geocriticism, and animal studies. Her most recent publications include an article on Animal Fridays in Robinson Crusoe and its Afterlives in The Nordic Journal of English Studies (2024) and the co-edition of a special issue of Viatica on Patrick Leigh Fermor (2023).
Anne-Florence Quaireau is an Associate Professor of British literature and translation at the University of Angers and a member of the research team CIRPaLL (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Patrimoines en Lettres et Langues). She specialises in nineteenth-century womens travel writing and has published several articles and chapters on the subject. Her PhD dissertation on Anna Jameson's travel writing in Canada was awarded the SELVA Doctoral Prize in 2013. Her monograph Le Féminin en partage: le récit de voyage dAnna Jameson au Canada (Sorbonne Université Presses, 2022) was finalist for the 2023 Joint Book Prize of the French Society for the Study of English (SAES) and French Association for American Studies (AFEA). She has co-edited a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing on exceptions and exceptionality with Samia Ounoughi, and has co-written three textbooks for students on travel in literature, L'ici et l'ailleurs (Atlande, 2015),Voyage, parcours initiatique, exil (Atlande, 2016), and Voyages et migrations (Atlande, 2020). From 2019 to 2023, she was the secretary for SELVA, a French learned society dedicated to the study of travel literature in English.
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