New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
‘A Study rather than a Rapture’: Isabella Bird on Japan....Pages 17-34
On Top of the World: Tourist’s Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing....Pages 35-53
The Garden of Forking Paths: Para texts in Travel Literature....Pages 54-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe....Pages 71-82
‘That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China’s stupendous mound!’ Romantic Period Accounts of China’s ‘Great Wall’....Pages 83-96
‘Habits of a landscape’: the Geocritical Imagination in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places and The Old Ways....Pages 97-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies....Pages 113-128
Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious....Pages 129-144
‘Take out your machine’: Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel....Pages 145-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
‘The thing which is not’: Mapping the Fantastic History of the Great Southern Continent....Pages 163-179
Locating Guam: the Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez’s Remapping of Unincorporated Territory....Pages 180-198
Map Reading in Travel Writing: the ‘Explorers’ Maps’ of Mexico, This Month....Pages 199-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
The Travellee’s Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750–1850....Pages 215-227
Anthropology/Travel/Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell....Pages 228-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Travel and Utopia....Pages 249-262
Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878....Pages 263-280
Afropolitan Travels: ‘Discovering Home’ and the World in Africa....Pages 281-296
Revising the ‘Contact Zone’: William Adams, Reception History and the Opening of Japan, 1600–1860....Pages 297-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-325