The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

• Author(s): Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 343
• ISBN_10: 0521786525
  ISBN_13: 9780521786522
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Historiography , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Travel / Essays & Travelogues ,

Description:... The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from Anthropology, History, Literary and Cultural Studies to offer a vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing.