Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

About this book

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic 'authority', each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, 'accompanied' by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect. Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic 'rules'by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.

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Yes, you can access Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine by M. Randal Owain, Gary Fisher,David Robinson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Personal Development & Travel. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781785278044
eBook ISBN
9781785278068
Edition
1
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One ‘Off-Stage, a War’: Wuhan, 1938
  10. Chapter Two Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911
  11. Chapter Three ‘A Rude People Subjected to No Restraint’: In Tanimbar with Anna Keith Forbes, Henry Forbes and So’u Melatunan
  12. Chapter Four Sent to Coventry: A Journey Home?
  13. Chapter Five Bedouin Is a Place: Freya Stark’s Travels with Nomads
  14. Chapter Six With Wilkie in the West: Reading Wilkie Collins’s Rambles beyond Railways from a Cornish Perspective
  15. Chapter Seven Picturing Rome: Walking the Eternal City with the Last Victorian
  16. Chapter Eight Su e zo per i ponti; Or, How History Does Not Help
  17. Chapter Nine A Town Called Entropy: Boom and Bust in Arnold Bennett’s Potteries
  18. Chapter Ten Travelling towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa
  19. Chapter Eleven Recollections of the King’s House
  20. Chapter Twelve Occupying Her Time: Ginette Eboué, France, 1940–42
  21. Epilogue
  22. Contributors
  23. Works Cited