Keywords for Travel Writing Studies

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A presentation of key concepts in travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.

The volume draws on the concept of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, ‘Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society’, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications. The significance of travel, the possibilities it holds for the individual and the impact it has upon our own society and those across the globe are debates that we encounter daily in the popular press and that have come sharply into focus in recent years at times of social, political, economic and humanitarian crises.

In its attention to the ‘keywords of travel’, this volume responds to what might be described as the ‘mobility turn’ in the arts and humanities over the past two decades. Travel writing has become a significant field of academic study across the humanities and social sciences, yet it is only in recent decades that it has been recognised as a serious area of enquiry and that the texts of travel have gained the status of important literary and cultural documents. At the same time, the volume acknowledges the way in which the notion of ‘keywords’ is being revised and considered in the academic community and more widely by other cultural stakeholders including museums and galleries. In terms of the keywords listed, whilst there is a marked absence of terms evoking ideas of travel and mobility in Williams’s original work, there is a notable emergence of travel-related terminology in recent publications that indicates the significance of keywords such as ‘diaspora’, ‘tourism’ and ‘place’.

In its attention to the ‘keywords of travel’, this volume takes into account the established status of studies in travel writing and the field’s significance for an audience beyond the academy. It responds to what might be described as the ‘mobility turn’ in the arts and humanities over the past two decades. Each entry is around 1,000 words, and the style is more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors providing a reflection on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. There is an emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions, ensuring that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the words selected are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Abroad; Adventure; Aesthetic; Affect; Anthropology; Arrival; Beaten Track; Body; Border; Boredom; Breakdown; Cartography; City; Class; Clothing; Coevalness; Colonialism; Companion; Contact Zone; Counterpoint; Curiosity; Dark Tourism; Death; Diaspora; Disability; Domestic Ritual; End-of-Travel; Ethics; Ethinicity; Exotic; Extreme Travel; Fiction; Form; Gender; Genre; Ghosts; Grand Tour; Hearing; History; Home; Home Tour; Humour; Identity; Illustration; Intermediaries; Intertextuality; Islands; Local Colour; Margins; Memory; Migration; Minority; Mobility; Monarch-of-All-I-Survey; Money; Motivation; Nation; Nature; Nomadism; Orientalism; Pedestrianism; Persona; Picturesque; Pilgrimage; Place; Poetics; Politics; Polygraphy; Primitivism; Psychoanalysis; Psychogeography; Reading; Science; Self; Semiotics; Sex/Sexuality; Skin; Slowness; Smell; Solitude; Subjectivity; Sublime; Taste; Technology; Time; Tourism; Trade; Translation;; Transport; Travel; Traveller/Travellee; Utopia; Velocity; Vertical Travel; Virtual Travel; Vision; War; Water; Wonder; World; Bibliography.

Sujets

• Interest group (disambiguation)
• Literature
• Travel

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 22 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783089246
• Langue: English

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies
Anthem Studies in Travel
Anthem Studies in Travel publishes new and pioneering work in the burgeoning field of travel studies. Titles in this series engage with questions of travel, travel writing, literature and history, and encompass some of the most exciting current scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Proposals for monographs and collections of essays may focus on research representing a broad range of geographical zones and historical contexts. All critical approaches are welcome, although a key feature of books published in the series will be their potential interest to a wide readership, as well as their originality and potential to break new ground in research.
Series Editor
Charles Forsdick – University of Liverpool, UK
Editorial Board
Mary Baine Campbell – Brandeis University, USA
Steve Clark – University of Tokyo, Japan
Claire Lindsay – University College London, UK
Loredana Polezzi – Cardiff University, UK
Paul Smethurst – University of Hong Kong, China
Keywords for Travel Writing Studies
A Critical Glossary
Edited by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Abroad
Paul Smethurst
2. Adventure
Richard Phillips
3. Aesthetic
Mary-Ann Constantine
4. Affect
Joanna Price
5. Anthropology
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
6. Arrival
Steve Clark
7. Beaten Track
Sharon Ouditt
8. Body
Charles Forsdick
9. Border
Tim Youngs
10. Boredom
Joe Moran
11. Breakdown
Richard Phillips
12. Cartography
Claire Lindsay
13. City
Gábor Gelléri
14. Class
Kathryn Walchester
15. Clothing
Dúnlaith Bird
16. Coevalness
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
17. Colonialism
Alex Drace-Francis
18. Companion
Alasdair Pettinger
19. Contact Zone
Claire Lindsay
20. Counterpoint
Siobhán Shilton
21. Curiosity
Richard Phillips
22. Dark Tourism
Charles Forsdick
23. Death
A. V. Seaton
24. Diaspora
Shine Choi
25. Disability
Charles Forsdick
26. Domestic Ritual
Betty Hagglund
27. End-of-Travel
Rune Graulund
28. Ethics
Corinne Fowler
29. Ethnicity
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
30. Exotic
Vladimir Kapor
31. Extreme Travel
Robert Burroughs
32. Fiction
Scott Carpenter
33. Form
Alex Drace-Francis
34. Gender
Dúnlaith Bird
35. Genre
Stacy Burton
36. Ghosts
A. V. Seaton
37. Grand Tour
A. V. Seaton
38. Hearing
Charles Forsdick
39. History
Kathryn Walchester
40. Home
Rune Graulund
41. Home Tour
Zoë Kinsley
42. Humour
Scott Carpenter
43. Identity
Alex Drace-Francis
44. Illustration
Kathryn Walchester
45. Intermediaries
Ángel Tuninetti
46. Intertextuality
Betty Hagglund
47. Islands
JOHANNES Riquet
48. Local Colour
Vladimir Kapor
49. Margins
Zoë Kinsley
50. Memory
Robert Burroughs
51. Migration
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
52. Minority
Heather Williams
53. Mobility
Charles Forsdick
54. Monarch-of-All-I-Survey
Claire Lindsay
55. Money
Alasdair Pettinger
56. Motivation
Kathryn Walchester
57. Nation
Steve Clark
58. Nature
Catherine Armstrong
59. Nomadism
Claire Lindsay
60. Orientalism
Julia Kuehn
61. Pedestrianism
Alasdair Pettinger
62. Persona
Alex Drace-Francis
63. Picturesque
Zoë Kinsley
64. Pilgrimage
Mary Baine Campbell
65. Place
Rune Graulund
66. Poetics
Julia Kuehn
67. Politics
Paul Smethurst
68. Polygraphy
Eimear Kennedy
69. Primitivism
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
70. Psychoanalysis
Robert Burroughs
71. Psychogeography
Alasdair Pettinger
72. Reading
Catherine Armstrong
73. Science
Mary Orr
74. Self
Stacy Burton
75. Semiotics
David Scott
76. Sex/Sexuality
David Scott
77. Skin
Charles Forsdick
78. Slowness
Sharon Ouditt
79. Smell
Charles Forsdick
80. Solitude
Joe Moran
81. Subjectivity
Joanna Price
82. Sublime
Sharon Ouditt
83. Taste
Charles Forsdick
84. Technology
Gary Totten
85. Time
Jacqueline Dutton
86. Tourism
Zoë Kinsley
87. Trade
Guido van Meersbergen
88. Translation
Aedín Ní Loingsigh
89. Transport
Gary Totten
90. Travel
Charles Forsdick
91. Traveller/Travellee
Paul Smethurst
92. Utopia
Jacqueline Dutton
93. Velocity
Gary Totten
94. Vertical Travel
Alasdair Pettinger
95. Virtual Travel
Margaret Topping
96. Vision
Margaret Topping
97. War
Corinne Fowler
98. Water
Carl Thompson
99. Wonder
Mary Baine Campbell
100. World
Catherine Armstrong
Bibliography
CONTRIBUTORS

Catherine Armstrong is senior lecturer in modern history at Loughborough University. She has published two monographs on travel narratives concerning colonial North America: Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century (2007) and Landscape and Identity in North America’s Southern Colonies (2013).
Dúnlaith Bird is a senior lecturer in English at the Université Paris 13. She has published on travel writing, gender identity and vagabondage in her monograph Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women’s Travelogues, 1850–1950 (2012), and in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2015), Exiles, Travellers, and Vagabonds (2016) and Itinéraires (2018) among others.
Robert Burroughs is a reader and head of English in the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University. His publications include Travel Writing and Atrocities (2011), The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade (co-edited with Richard Huzzey, 2015) and African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform (2018).
Stacy Burton is professor of English and vice provost, emerita, at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her scholarly publications include Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity (2013) and articles in Modern Language Quarterly , Modern Philology , Comparative Literature , Genre and other venues.
Mary Baine Campbell is a poet and literary historian, Professor Emerita at Brandeis University and 2019 Kennedy Professor of Renaissance Literature at Smith College.She has published two histories of travel writing in relation to the histories of fiction and the sciences: The Witness and the Other World and Wonder and Science.
Scott Carpenter teaches literature and creative writing at Carleton College. His books include Acts of Fiction , Reading Lessons , The Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France , Theory of Remainders: A Novel and This Jealous Earth: Stories . His travel writing has appeared in such publications as The Rumpus , Lowestoft Chronicle and Silk Road .
Shine Choi is a member of the Politics and IR faculty at Massey University School of People, Environment and Planning. Her publications include Re-imagining North Korea in International Politics: Problems and Alternatives (2015) and journal articles and book chapters on love, the colour grey, conflict and aesthetics.
Steve Clark is visiting professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. Previous publications include Travel Writing and Empire (editor, 1999) and Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and South-East Asia (co-edited with Paul Smethurst, 2008).
Mary-Ann Constantine is reader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She works on the literature and history of Romantic-period Wales and Brittany, and has a particular interest in travel writing and in the cultural politics of the 1790s. She was joint general editor of the ten-volume series Wales and the French Revolution (2012–15), and