Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)

Imprint......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Editors and Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 12
1 From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya: The Rise and Fall of Subjectivity in Early Modern Travel Narrative......Page 68
2 Futility in the New World: Narratives of Travel in Sixteenth-Century America......Page 85
3 ‘Rubbing up against others’: Montaigne on Pilgrimage......Page 112
4 The Philosopher as Traveller: Bernier’s Orient......Page 135
5 Looking for Virgil’s Tomb: The End of the Grand Tour and the Cosmopolitan Ideal in Europe......Page 149
6 Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and the Orientalist Geography of the New Imperial Age (1760–1830)......Page 173
7 ‘The Ghost in Chapultepec’: Fanny Calderón de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts......Page 195
8 Partners: Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s–1950s......Page 221
9 The European Journey in Postwar American Fiction and Film......Page 243
10 Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel......Page 263
References......Page 283
Select Bibliography......Page 339
Acknowledgements......Page 341
Photographic Acknowledgements......Page 342
Index......Page 343