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This cluster of papers explores the historical patterns, gender dynamics, and postcolonial perspectives in travel writing and exploration. It delves into the representation of culture, identity, and tourism, while also examining the intersection of literature and history in shaping narratives of travel and ethnography.

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Travel Writing; Exploration; Gender; Postcolonialism; Identity; Culture; Tourism; Ethnography; Literature; History

Questions of travel: postmodern discourses of displacement

1997-03-01

Caren Kaplan

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel - displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the … Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel - displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist traces the political implications of this travelling theory, and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism. Addressing a wide range of writers, including Paul Fussell, Edward Said, James Clifford, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Soja, Doreen Massey, Chandra Mohanty, and Adrienne Rich, Kaplan demonstrates that symbols and metaphors of travel are used in ways that obscure key differences of power between nationalities, classes, races, and genders. Neither rejecting nor dismissing the powerful testimony of individual experiences of modern exile or displacement, Kaplan asks how mystified metaphors of travel might be avoided. With a focus on theory's colonial discourses, she reveals how these metaphors continue to operate in the seemingly liberatory critical zones of poststructuralism and feminist theory. The book concludes with a critique of the politics of location as a form of essentialist identity politics and calls for new feminist geographies of place and displacement. An important and timely intervention into contemporary theoretical debates, Questions of Travel will be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, cultural studies, feminist colonial and postcolonial studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology.

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On holiday: a history of vacationing

2000-04-01

Orvar Löfgren

When it comes to holidays, some talk about seeing the world, others about getting away from it all. These two basic philosophies of travel are elaborated in this investigation of … When it comes to holidays, some talk about seeing the world, others about getting away from it all. These two basic philosophies of travel are elaborated in this investigation of elsewhereness as a human pursuit. Whether we set out in search of a mountainscape that will take our breath away, artifacts of the past to enrich our minds, the purest sand the most unspoiled beach, or a summer place to know and cherish, we follow inner itineraries as time-honoured and various as the routes we take. Beginning his cultural journey among some 18th-century pioneers of tourism, Lofgren takes us a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of learning to be a have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. The means of travel have bred their own expectations and rewards. Faster and more affordable tranportation, besides permitting more than a small elite to go on holiday, has led to the package tour and the globalization of tourism.

Astronomy and Cosmogony

1929-04-20

James Jeans

Astronomy and Cosmogony Get access Notes and Queries, Volume 156, Issue 16, 20 April 1929, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/156.16.289 Published: 20 April 1929 Astronomy and Cosmogony Get access Notes and Queries, Volume 156, Issue 16, 20 April 1929, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/156.16.289 Published: 20 April 1929

Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica

2009-01-01

Zora Neale Hurston

The beaten track: European tourism, literature, and the ways to culture, 1800-1918

1994-04-01

James Buzard

Tourist and traveller in the network of 19th-century travel tourism and anti-tourism - conventions and strategies a scripted continent - British and American travel-writers in Europe, c. 1825-1875 ambivalent appropriations … Tourist and traveller in the network of 19th-century travel tourism and anti-tourism - conventions and strategies a scripted continent - British and American travel-writers in Europe, c. 1825-1875 ambivalent appropriations - culture and the tourist in James Forster's trespasses - tourism and cultural politics epilogue.

Discourses of difference: an analysis of women's travel writing and colonialism

1992-11-01

Sara Mills

Part I, Critical Responses to Women's Travel Writing: Feminist Work on Women's Travel Writing Gender and the Study of Colonial Discourse. Part II, Constraints on Production and Reception: Foucault and … Part I, Critical Responses to Women's Travel Writing: Feminist Work on Women's Travel Writing Gender and the Study of Colonial Discourse. Part II, Constraints on Production and Reception: Foucault and Constraints on the Production of Text Constraints on the Reception of Women's Travel Writing. Part III, Case Studies Alexandra David-Neel - My Journey to Lhasa (1927) Mary Kingsley - Travels in West Africa (1897) Nina Mazuchelli - The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them (1876).

Gendering Orientalism: race, femininity and representation

1996-06-01

Reina Lewis

In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves. Drawing on the little-known … In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other `lost' women Orientlist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, Reina Lewis challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze. Gendering Orientalism argues that women did not have a straightforward access to an implicitly male position of western superiority, Their relationship to the shifting terms of race, nation and gender produced positions from which women writers and artists could articulate alternative representations of racial difference. It is this different, and often less degrading, gaze on the Orientalized `Other' that is analysed in this book. By revealing the extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism and highlighting the presence of Orientalist themes in the work of Browne, Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Reina Lewis uncovers women's roles in imperial culture and discourse.

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

1981-01-01

Robert Murray Davis , Paul Fussell

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel … A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection

1986-01-01

Marja Warehime , Susan Stewart

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis … Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the miniature as a metaphor for interiority and at the gigantic as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the souvenir and the collection are objects mediating experience in time and space.

Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History

2000-09-01

Sheldon Pollock

Research Article| September 01 2000 Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History Sheldon Pollock Sheldon Pollock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): … Research Article| September 01 2000 Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History Sheldon Pollock Sheldon Pollock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 591–625. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-591 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sheldon Pollock; Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History. Public Culture 1 September 2000; 12 (3): 591–625. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-591 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPublic Culture Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. 2000 by Duke University Press2000 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Cosmopolitanism You do not currently have access to this content.

In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place

1994-01-01

Robert Wessing , Anna Tsing

PrefaceOpening: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen3Pt. 1Politics of the Periphery391Marginal Fictions512Government Headhunters723Family Planning104Pt. 2A Science of Travel1214Leadership Landscapes1275Conditions of Living1546On the Boundary of the Skin178Pt. 3Riding the Horse … PrefaceOpening: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen3Pt. 1Politics of the Periphery391Marginal Fictions512Government Headhunters723Family Planning104Pt. 2A Science of Travel1214Leadership Landscapes1275Conditions of Living1546On the Boundary of the Skin178Pt. 3Riding the Horse of Gaps2077Alien Romance2138Riding, Writing2309The History of the World253Reprise285Notes303References Cited311Index335

Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory

1999-11-01

Viviana A. Bompadre , Chris Rojek , John Urry

It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential … It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections between tourism and cultural change and the relevance of tourist experience to current theoretical debates on space, time and identity.

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

1994-09-01

Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Reviewed by: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Aldon Lynn Nielsen The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Paul Gilroy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. 261. $24.95. … Reviewed by: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Aldon Lynn Nielsen The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Paul Gilroy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. 261. $24.95. During her years on the West Coast, the poet Lucille Clifton often told audiences that one of her new joys was writing poetry about the Pacific Ocean. She’d written poems of the Atlantic, but, as she put it, she always had some problems with the Atlantic Ocean. In the years since, Clifton has moved back to the East Coast and has written poetry about the ritual blessing of the boats in St. Mary’s County. Both Clifton’s mobility and the ironies implicit for black poets in the blessing of the Atlantic boats are constitutive features of the particular forms of double consciousness described by Paul Gilroy’s term “the Black Atlantic.” [End Page 275] It is absolutely crucial to note that Gilroy deploys this term as a heuristic device, a device that addresses one small area in the grand consequence of this historical conjunction—the stereophonic, bilingual, or bifocal cultural forms originated by, but no longer the exclusive property of, blacks dispersed within the structures of feeling, producing, communicating and remembering that [he has] heuristically called the black Atlantic world. (3) If this is not kept firmly in mind readers might feel that the concept of the Black Atlantic is positing an essentialist or otherwise limiting construction of identities. Those perched, however precariously, upon what we now call the “Pacific Rim” might wonder about possible exclusions entailed in Gilroy’s usage. Gilroy himself is well aware of the danger. In response to a question raised by Donna Haraway at the University of Illinois’s mammoth cultural studies conference in 1990, a question in which Haraway wondered if “this particular global mapping leaves out” really crucial questions, Gilroy said: I feel that most of the decisive political battles are actually going to be registered at that intermediate level, between the local and the global. And I actually wanted to try and illustrate what it might mean to put some concepts in there in a very provisional way. And I hope it didn’t sound as if the Atlantic was supposed to exhaust that.... I think we need a new topography and I think that maybe, I’m not even sure about it, the Atlantic thing might be part of that. 1 It is this heuristic function that provides the greatest value of Gilroy’s concept. He writes in The Black Atlantic that “Historians of ideas and movements have generally preferred to stay within the boundaries of nationality and ethnicity and have shown little enthusiasm for connecting the life of one movement with that of another” (186). I’ve no doubt that this claim will fall apart when considered on the largest scale; we can all think of counterexamples. But it too often does seem to be the case that scholars of African American culture have tended to look only to Africa and America, while scholars of American studies or of Western literary traditions have clearly preferred to stay out of Africa. Gilroy’s study demonstrates the necessity of examining the continuing cultural congress of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Major portions of this volume are given to interpretive studies of the trans-Atlantic careers of Martin Delany, W. E. B. DuBois, and Richard Wright. Gilroy’s work here is important not only for its bringing back to critical attention major efforts by these authors that have been overlooked or undervalued (DuBois’s German and African residencies and Wright’s later books in particular); it also grounds his larger argument about the need to reconceive modernity. Martin Delany is a key figure here. For many years Delany was known to literature scholars only for his remarkable novel Blake: or, The Huts of America, while he was known to historians primarily for his efforts as an African colonizationist and as a soldier. But Delany, who had been admitted to Harvard for medical training only on the condition that he leave the country afterwards and practice in Liberia, and who was asked to leave Harvard anyway by no less a personage...

The Portuguese Seaborne Empire: 1415-1825.

1970-11-01

Bailey W. Diffie , C. R. Boxer

Touring cultures: Transformations of travel and theory

1998-06-01

Pauline Marne

Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century

1998-02-01

Richard Handler

Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century. James Clifford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 408 pp., figures, notes, references, sources, Index. Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century. James Clifford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 408 pp., figures, notes, references, sources, Index.

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.

1993-01-01

Moira Ferguson , Mary Louise Pratt

1st edition contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors Narrating the anti-conquest Anti-conquest II: The mystique … 1st edition contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors Narrating the anti-conquest Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity Eros and Abolition Part II The reinvention of America, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador Notes Index

Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1956-01-01

P. M. Zall , Earl Leslie Griggs

This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an … This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.

British Romantic writers and the East: anxieties of empire

1993-11-01

Nigel Leask

The recent turn to political and historical readings of Romanticism has given us a more complex picture of the institutional, cultural and sexual politics of the period. There has been … The recent turn to political and historical readings of Romanticism has given us a more complex picture of the institutional, cultural and sexual politics of the period. There has been a tendency, however, to confine such study to the European scene. In this book, Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'. Combining historical and theoretical approaches with detailed analyses of specific works, it examines the anxieties and instabilities of Romantic representations of the Ottoman Empire, India, China and the Far East. It argues that these anxieties were not marginal but central to the major concerns of British Romantic writers. The book is illustrated with a number of engravings from the period, giving a visual dimension to the discussion of Romantic representations of the East.

Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850

1978-12-01

Nancy F. Cott

Engineering affective atmospheres on the moving geographies of the 1897 Andrée expedition

2008-10-01

Derek McCormack

How might the dynamic materiality of atmosphere be addressed in ways that register simultaneously its meteorological and affective qualities? The present article considers this question via a discussion of the … How might the dynamic materiality of atmosphere be addressed in ways that register simultaneously its meteorological and affective qualities? The present article considers this question via a discussion of the kinds of atmospheric spaces in which the emergence and experience of modern balloon (or aerostatic) flight is implicated. In doing so it argues that aerostatic flight can be understood simultaneously as a technology for moving through atmosphere in a meteorological sense and as an event generative, at least potentially, of atmospheres in an affective sense. This argument is exemplified via a discussion of a particularly notable instance of balloon flight: the attempt, in 1897 by a Swedish engineer, Salomon August Andrée, and two companions, to fly to the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. Drawing upon a range of contemporaneous accounts, the article makes three claims about the expedition: first, that it can be understood, following Spinoza, as an effort to engineer a mode of addressing the meteorological atmosphere as a relational field of affect; second, that the passage of the expedition can be understood in terms of the registering of atmospheres (in both meteorological and affective terms) in moving, sensing bodies; and third, that the expedition was also generative of a distributed space of anticipation and expectancy. In concluding, the article speculates upon how conceiving of atmospheric space as simultaneously as meteorological and affective might contribute to recent attempts to rethink the materialities of cultural geographies.

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Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility

1989-10-01

M Crick

Travel seems to generate consistently ambivalent or contradictory representa tions. Why is it that Levi-Strauss opens his autobiography Tristes Tropiques, which brought him such fame, by declaring that he hates … Travel seems to generate consistently ambivalent or contradictory representa tions. Why is it that Levi-Strauss opens his autobiography Tristes Tropiques, which brought him such fame, by declaring that he hates traveling and travelers ( 1 1 1 : 15)? Why do so many tourists claim that they are not tourists themselves and that they dislike and avoid other tourists ( 1 1 5 : 1 0): Is this some modem cultural form of self-loathing? In Innocents Abroad Mark Twain asserts that travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and nar rowmindedness . . . ( 198 Vol. 2:407) and yet goes on, page after page, about the daily torture and anxiety involved in foreign . Fatigue, and the constant annoyance of beggars and guides fill one with bitter prejudice ( 198 Vol . 1 :253), he comments. Another beggar approaches. I will go out and destroy him and then come back and write another chapter of vitupera tion ( 198 Vol. 1 :269). Unlike Malinowski' s mythologizing record of par ticipant observation in his professional works with embarrassing confessions, ambivalence, and hostility confined to his diary ( 1 1 8) Twain serves up the negative, positive, and contradictory in a single work. Twain traveled and wrote at a time when the foundations of the modem industry were being laid; and if in 1 9th-century creative literature we have images of travel , in that of the 20th we find portrayed its contemporary degenerate offspring-mass tourism. Degeneracy is an image that keeps surfacing, and so not surprisingly representations of tourism are frequently even more hostile than those of travel. As MacCannell puts it, The term 'tourist' is increasingly used as a derisive label for someone who seems content with his obviously inauthentic experiences ( 1 1 5 :94). John Fowles

Animal Migration, Navigation, and Homing

1978-01-01

Klaus Schmidt‐Koenig , William T. Keeton

Space and Place

2011-01-01

John Agnew

Edward Said, Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. $15.

1979-07-01

Irene A. Bierman

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The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery

1975-10-01

S. Medlik

Journal Article The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery Get access The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery. By Louis Turner and John Ash. London: Constable. … Journal Article The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery Get access The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery. By Louis Turner and John Ash. London: Constable. 1975. 319 pp. £5.00. S. Medlik S. Medlik 1University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 1975, Pages 560–561, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615841 Published: 01 October 1975

Geopolitics and discourse

1992-03-01

Gearóid Ó Tuathail , John Agnew

Geomodernisms: race, modernism, modernity

2006-12-01

Imperial eyes: travel writing and transculturation

1992-10-01

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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

1993-01-01

Louis J. Hinkel

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Questions of Travel

1996-08-21

Caren Kaplan

01111'1.01'111 Of 'IR& .11 An IntroductionContinent, city, country, society: the choice is never wide and never free.And here, or there ... No. Should we have stayed at home, wherever that … 01111'1.01'111 Of 'IR& .11 An IntroductionContinent, city, country, society: the choice is never wide and never free.And here, or there ... No. Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be? -

Ulysses' Sail

1988-12-31

Mary W. Helms

What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance … What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be they Hindu pilgrims in India, Islamic scholars of West Africa, Navajo traders, or Tlingit chiefs, and discusses the most extensive experience of long-distance contact on record--that between Europeans and native peoples--and the clash of cultures that arose from conflicting expectations about the "faraway.". The author describes her work as "especially concerned with the political and ideological contexts or auras within which long-distance interests and activities may be conducted ... Not only exotic materials but also intangible knowledge of distant realms and regions can be politically valuable `goods,' both for those who have endured the perils of travel and for those sedentary homebodies who are able to acquire such knowledge by indirect means and use it for political advantage." Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Touring Cultures

2002-09-11

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

1993-01-01

Louis J. Hinkel

Book Review| January 01 1993 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and TransculturationPratt, Mary Louise Louis J. Hinkel, Jr. Louis J. Hinkel, Jr. Search for other … Book Review| January 01 1993 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and TransculturationPratt, Mary Louise Louis J. Hinkel, Jr. Louis J. Hinkel, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nineteenth Century Studies (1993) 7 (1): 118–122. https://doi.org/10.2307/45196723 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louis J. Hinkel; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Nineteenth Century Studies 1 January 1993; 7 (1): 118–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/45196723 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressNineteenth Century Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1993 Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association1993Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Postcolonial Exotic

2002-09-26

Graham Huggan

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial … Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

Orientalism: history, theory and the arts

1996-02-01

John M. MacKenzie

The Orientalism debate the Orient and culture and imperialism Orientalism in art Orientalism in architecture Orientalism in design Orientalism in music Orientalism in the theatre. The Orientalism debate the Orient and culture and imperialism Orientalism in art Orientalism in architecture Orientalism in design Orientalism in music Orientalism in the theatre.

The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration

2017-10-02

David Spurr

The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language … The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world. Despite historical differences among British, French, and American versions of colonialism, their rhetoric had much in common. The Rhetoric of Empire identifies these shared features—images, figures of speech, and characteristic lines of argument—and explores them in a wide variety of sources. A former correspondent for the United Press International, the author is equally at home with journalism or critical theory, travel writing or official documents, and his discussion is remarkably comprehensive. Ranging from T. E. Lawrence and Isak Dineson to Hemingway and Naipaul, from Time and the New Yorker to the National Geographic and Le Monde , from journalists such as Didion and Sontag to colonial administrators such as Frederick Lugard and Albert Sarraut, this analysis suggests the degree to which certain rhetorical tactics penetrate the popular as well as official colonial and postcolonial discourse. Finally, Spurr considers the question: Can the language itself—and with it, Western forms of interpretation--be freed of the exercise of colonial power? This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about—and between—different cultures.

THIS TRIP REALLY CHANGED ME

2004-01-01

Chaim Noy

Traveler’s Blog of Count Louis de Turenne, or Experience Economy in 1876

2025-06-25

Elena F. Ovcharenko | Concept philosophy religion culture

The relevance of the study is due to the need to investigate the cultural phenomenon of traveling and related travel journals. The rapid development of this genre along multiple trajectories … The relevance of the study is due to the need to investigate the cultural phenomenon of traveling and related travel journals. The rapid development of this genre along multiple trajectories (primarily travelogue as travel journalism and travel blogging) at the end of the 20th century replaced the more familiar genres of literary travel, travel essay, travel note, etc. Associated with the development of new media, travel blogs today represent a wide range of interactions, including the use of electronic means of communication. At the same time, the reference in this article to a littlestudied documentary source from the 19th century, the travel diary of Count Louis de Turenne about his journey to Quebec (winter–spring 1876), published in Paris in 1879, allows us to draw certain parallels between the travel journals of the late 1870s and the modern genre of travel blogging. The purpose of this study was determined by the discovered property of the French traveller’s journal, consisting in the desire to transmit his personalized experience in printed form in order to share impressions. Thus, this study attempts to trace parallels between the contemporary socio-cultural practice of travel blogging and its earlier prototypes. Achieving this goal required solving the following tasks: 1) to systematize the main approaches to the travel blog genre from the standpoint of cultural studies; 2) to establish the historical circumstances of the creation of the travel diary of Count Louis de Turenne; 3) to describe the personal characteristics of the Count that influenced the route he chose; 4) to trace the specifics of the phenomena that attracted his attention; 5) to correlate the cultural content of a 19th-century travel diary with the basic provisions of the latest leisure concept of the experience economy. The study is based on a comprehensive cultural analysis, which made it possible to combine the biographical method with a historical-genetic approach as well as both hermeneutic and anthropological examination of the available material. This view allowed for the tracing of the relationship between the realities of the journey, the author’s personality and the text he created (such a relationship is one of the main criteria of a travel blog, as it is commonly understood today). The material for the study was the aforementioned travel journal of Count Louis de Turenne Fourteen Months in North America (Turenne de Louis. Quatorze mois dans l’Amérique du Nord ), which had not been studied by Russian scientists before. As a result, the study proposes a model for interpreting a modern travel blog as a consequence of the development of one of the directions of the travel genre, carried out in pursuit of impressions and recorded in regular diary entries. In conclusion a modern travel blog is a heterogeneous phenomenon, its comprehensive consideration in the optics of cultural studies can help to identify a number of non-trivial features. The historical circumstances of the creation of the studied journal do not allow us to fully project ideas about modern travel blogs onto this work. At the same time, an analysis of the diary’s content revealed a number of their typological similarities, the main one of which is the attitude to impressions as a value. Thus, the diary of Louis de Turenne can be considered a prototype of both modern travel blogging and a proto-phenomenon of the experience economy.

The Transience of Travel and Time: An Exploration of Flâneur in Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy

2025-06-25

Abisha Jasmine Suganthy S , V Karunanithi | 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies

Decentering History: Animals, Politics, and Religions

2025-06-24

Huaiyu Chen | Political Theology

Mythopoetic Resonances: Intertextual Appropriation of Classical Mythology in Modernist British Poetry

2025-06-19

Wei Zhu | Scientific journal of humanities and social sciences.

The incorporation of classical mythology in British modernist poetry is studied in this research as the works of forgotten British poets like Eliot, Yeats, and H.D. are placed under scrutiny … The incorporation of classical mythology in British modernist poetry is studied in this research as the works of forgotten British poets like Eliot, Yeats, and H.D. are placed under scrutiny based on how they appropriated ancient myths to tackle issues of their epoch. Analysing "The Waste Land," "Leda and the Swan," and H.D.’s Hellenic poetry, the research shows that modernist poets carved out a cultural critique from the fragments of their experiences shaped by classical modernist references. Eliot's objective correlative, the Celtic-classical synthesis of Yeats, and H.D.'s feminist reclamation portray different styles of mythological argumentation modernist poets followed. Combining intertextuality and mythopoesis, this paper demonstrates the shift of British modernist poets towards classical traditions in abstraction contemporary mythological consciousness, bearing the impacts of modern poetics and literary theory.

Introduction

2025-06-19

Maria M. Delgado , Steven Williams | Cambridge University Press eBooks

Representations of Chinese Culture in British Literature: The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

2025-06-18

Duygu Koroncu Özbilen | Asya Araştırmaları Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

The Painted Veil (1925), by W. Somerset Maugham, is a major work of British literature that shows Chinese society in great detail through its setting, characters, and philosophical undertones. The … The Painted Veil (1925), by W. Somerset Maugham, is a major work of British literature that shows Chinese society in great detail through its setting, characters, and philosophical undertones. The story takes place in China in the 1920s, during a cholera outbreak, and deals with morality, redemption, and existential change. Maugham uses Confucian ideas, Taoist philosophy, and traditional Chinese social values in his story. This shows how Western literature interacts with Eastern thinking. The way the book shows Chinese customs, landscapes, and social structures demonstrates that the author both understands and appreciates Chinese culture. This shows how difficult it is to write about other cultures. One important thing about The Painted Veil is how it shows Chinese culture using British writing styles. Maugham demonstrates the contrast between the Western logic of the main character and the Eastern emphasis on harmony and self-cultivation, particularly in the Buddhist monastery where Kitty transforms the situation. Also, the way the book shows Chinese characters sometimes shows Maugham's colonial views, but it also shows his complex understanding of cultural differences. This research looks at how The Painted Veil connects with Chinese philosophical and literary traditions. It does this by placing the book within the larger conversation of how British literature has responded to Chinese culture. This paper shows how cross-cultural interactions shape literary stories by looking at how the novel shows Chinese thought, landscape, and society.

Inhospitality, Colonialism and Gender in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain

2025-06-17

Pere Gifra-Adroher | Rassegna iberistica

This article analyses the representation of Spain as an inhospitable country in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain , a bitter narrative of the solitary journey that this neglected … This article analyses the representation of Spain as an inhospitable country in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain , a bitter narrative of the solitary journey that this neglected Victorian writer pursued across parts of the Peninsula during the summer of 1865. Drawing on diverse approaches to hospitality and inhospitality, I will argue that Eyre chose to purposely build a negative image of Spain by blending the two main ideologies that, according to Sara Mills, influenced Victorian women’s travel books, namely, the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of gender. Eyre, who during her journey was harassed and insulted by her triple status of woman, foreigner and solo traveller, used her narrative to ultimately take revenge and describe the country in a way no other Victorian travellers had done before.

“The Spirit of Joyful Service”: From Hospitality to Domestic Service in British Travel Literature (Mallorca, 1907-2007)

2025-06-17

Eduard Moyà | Rassegna iberistica

This study proposes a comparative approach to the analysis of the cultural dialogue between British women travellers and the local society in Mallorca during the twentieth century on the region. … This study proposes a comparative approach to the analysis of the cultural dialogue between British women travellers and the local society in Mallorca during the twentieth century on the region. Initially, it explores to what extent the relationship between visitors and islanders develops and transforms from a dynamic of encounter and hospitality first, into one of tourist or domestic service where local women are perceived as servants. Similarly, this paper analyses how this latter relationship oscillates from an initial contractual dependence towards a more intimate and confidential relationship, where the local woman mediates between the traveller and the local culture. Through the analysis of travel literature, this essay seeks on the other hand, to unravel the crystalised representations and perceptions that emerge around hospitality, tourist service and intercultural dialogue in this specific context, offering a unique perspective on the beginnings and evolution of tourism in Mallorca.

Hospes, Hostis: The Experience of Nineteenth-Century French and English Women Travelers in Mallorca

2025-06-17

Isabelle Bes Hoghton | Rassegna iberistica

The article explores the evolution of the concept of hospitality in nineteenth-century travel narratives, focusing on the unique experiences of women travelling to Mallorca. While the principles of Homeric hospitality … The article explores the evolution of the concept of hospitality in nineteenth-century travel narratives, focusing on the unique experiences of women travelling to Mallorca. While the principles of Homeric hospitality were constrained by Kant and the Encyclopedists at the end of the eighteenth century, what form of hospitality awaited these travellers? How did French writers George Sand, Joséphine de Brinckmann, and Jane Dubuisson; Austrian traveller Mme de Harrasowsky; and English visitors Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor and H. Belsches Graham Bellingham experience Mallorca? Were they met with hospitality or inhospitality, and did they encounter a form of hospitality that was universal or conditional?

«¡Vaya usted con Dio-o-o-o!» Mediadores de hospitalidad y asimetrías en el viaje ecuestre de Penelope Chetwode, Andalucía, 1961

2025-06-17

Ivanne Galant | Rassegna iberistica

In 1961, British aristocrat Penelope Chetwode explores Andalusia on horseback. Through her narrative, Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963), she discovers the hospitality of Spanish villages, facilitated by her status … In 1961, British aristocrat Penelope Chetwode explores Andalusia on horseback. Through her narrative, Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963), she discovers the hospitality of Spanish villages, facilitated by her status as a woman, her Catholic faith, and her connection to her horse. Aware of the social asymmetry, she attempts to mitigate this imbalance through humor and self-deprecation, though her efforts sometimes fall short of achieving genuine equality in these exchanges. Her idealized view of rural Spain, tinged with nostalgia for a pre-modern era, exemplifies a ‘retrotouristic’ vision in which the country’s authenticity is frozen in the past.

Representing seaside heterotopia

2025-06-16

Tony Blackshaw | Routledge eBooks

An aetiology of the seaside's hidden heterotopias

2025-06-16

Tony Blackshaw | Routledge eBooks

Metaphor, resurrection, and the body in John Donne’s poetry and prose

2025-06-16

Ryan Netzley | Literature and Theology

Abstract John Donne’s poems, both religious and secular, reveal that metaphor does not utilize more accessible bodily experiences to explain abstract concepts. Instead, metaphor in his verse challenges the apparentness … Abstract John Donne’s poems, both religious and secular, reveal that metaphor does not utilize more accessible bodily experiences to explain abstract concepts. Instead, metaphor in his verse challenges the apparentness and familiarity of bodily experience, forcing readers to apprehend figuration at a distance and at the same time as it occurs within a poem. This essay explores how this vision of metaphor affects the portrait of consolation in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, as well as the account of the Resurrection in his sermons. Donne’s poetry, then, exposes the extent to which metaphor encourages readers to consider the world as a synchronic system without hierarchy, particularly the hierarchy of means and ends.

The Travel Narrative in A Passage to India

2025-06-11

Youzhi Zeng | Scientific journal of humanities and social sciences.

A Passage to India is written by E. M. Forster according to his experience of two trips to India, within which the travel narrative not only contributes to a rich … A Passage to India is written by E. M. Forster according to his experience of two trips to India, within which the travel narrative not only contributes to a rich plot, but also deeply reflects the complex relationship between the British colonialists and the native people of India. Analyzing the novel A Passage to India from the perspective of the travel narrative, this paper explores the background and motivation of travel of the main characters, analyses the narrative structure and techniques used by Forster, as well as the conflicts and integration of culture during the travel. This paper also argues that both the characters in the novel and the author of the novel himself experienced India in the way of traveling. Although they ostensibly undertook a space journey, they essentially took a spiritual journey, and a soul’s one. The aim of this paper is to explore the varied dimensions of the travel narrative in A Passage to India, the conflict and integration of culture, and the profound reflection on British colonialism reflected in the novel. It also points out that travel narrative presents a multi-level cultural dialogue and provides readers with profound insights into cross-cultural understanding.

Travel Notes

2025-06-09

| Duke University Press eBooks

This essay was the introduction to the catalog of the exhibition Trade Routes: History and Geography; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor in Johannesburg in 1997. The author and … This essay was the introduction to the catalog of the exhibition Trade Routes: History and Geography; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor in Johannesburg in 1997. The author and his cocurators attempted to map the impacts of economic globalization on artistic practice in Africa, including South Africa, and throughout the world.

Between Worlds

2025-06-09

| Duke University Press eBooks

This chapter, from the book Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor (London, 1999), explores the use of postmodern artistic … This chapter, from the book Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor (London, 1999), explores the use of postmodern artistic practices by African artists living in diaspora in Western art worlds. These include Iké Udé, Bili Bidjocka, Olu Oguibe, and Ouattara.

From Junzi to Mingshi : dual approaches to representing European women in late nineteenth-century Chinese travel accounts

2025-06-08

Y. S. Gao | Studies in Travel Writing

Popular Aesthetics:

2025-06-03

| University of Wisconsin Press eBooks

Conquering the air: The surprising story of aviation at Australia’s Bondi Beach

2025-06-01

Donna Lee Brien | Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

This article probes a previously under-examined facet of the past of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to demonstrate the rich intersections of popular culture and historical inquiry. This investigation probes … This article probes a previously under-examined facet of the past of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to demonstrate the rich intersections of popular culture and historical inquiry. This investigation probes how people have engaged with aviation-related activities at Bondi Beach. It views these engagements from the viewpoint of participation in popular culture, while using representations of these engagements in popular culture as historical source materials. Taking the broadest view of aviation ranging from balloons and kites to aeroplanes, helicopters and wind-driven sports vehicles, the article offers an addition to existing historical narrative about Bondi Beach. It also begins to probe the points of connection between the disciplines of popular culture and history.

Review of The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, edited by Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn. Bucknell University Press, 2021. Pp. 476. $150.00. ISBN: 978-1684483266 (Hardcover). $62.95. ISBN: 978-1684483259 (Paperback). $62.95. ISBN: 9781684483273 (EPub).

2025-06-01

Bradley Wilson | Digital Defoe :

Politics of Alterity in Arthur Leared’s Morocco and the Moors (1876) and Budgett Meakin’s Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond (1906)

2025-06-01

Moundir Al Amrani | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

ABSTRACT The massive literary production that accompanied the expansion of the British Empire and the rise of exploration and travel in the nineteenth century are factors that give travel narratives … ABSTRACT The massive literary production that accompanied the expansion of the British Empire and the rise of exploration and travel in the nineteenth century are factors that give travel narratives of this period a certain value that renders them worthy of study and criticism. The context in which these travel accounts were written, the political agenda governing their discourse, and how they are presented to the reader constitute an ideology that revokes any claims of authenticity and impartiality as most travelers claim in their accounts. This becomes clear in the light of Orientalism as a discourse that constructs the Other in a certain way and the politics of alterity as manifested in this discourse. With these ideas in mind and with particular reference to two British accounts written on Morocco, this article examines Orientalist discourse and politics of alterity as employed in Arthur Leared’s Morocco and the Moors (1876) and Budgett Meakin’s Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond (1906) in their representation of Moroccans and their land. This examination focuses on how these two travelers conceptualized, analyzed, and problematized this complex phenomenon, with the aim to illuminate the multifaceted nature of alterity and its implications for identity, culture, and power relations.

Conclusion

2025-05-30

Sofie Behluli | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract The conclusion synthesizes the findings and highlights the distinct features and aesthetic goals of the contemporary ekphrastic novel again. It demonstrates how the ekphrastic passages in these novels function … Abstract The conclusion synthesizes the findings and highlights the distinct features and aesthetic goals of the contemporary ekphrastic novel again. It demonstrates how the ekphrastic passages in these novels function as symbols or metaphors, creating rich imaginary spaces where novelists effectively explore the conflicts between private and public life. Additionally, it stresses how ekphrastic novels redirect our gaze to the past to make sense of the present. Specifically, they often reimagine canonical artworks and literature to address current issues, modelling how to cultivate more sustainable habits of revisiting, relooking, and recycling in today’s age of image abundance. This book ends with some suggestions for future research on ekphrasis in the digital age.

Translation and the Squire’s Fabulous “Traveling Icon” Narrative Venture

2025-05-30

Liam O. Purdon | The Chaucer Review

ABSTRACT Utilizing the matter of composite romance, Chaucer’s Squire’s two-part avant-garde tale, like a traveling icon inviting heuristic response, juxtaposes the styles of the Late Romanesque/Early Gothic and the Later … ABSTRACT Utilizing the matter of composite romance, Chaucer’s Squire’s two-part avant-garde tale, like a traveling icon inviting heuristic response, juxtaposes the styles of the Late Romanesque/Early Gothic and the Later Gothic to demonstrate how the inevitable transformation of nonmimetic into mimetic fiction is effectuated by translation. In emphasizing perpendicularity, individualization, and isolation, Part I’s quasi-symmetrical frame underscores effective acts of translation by the Squire and the Mamluk stranger-knight, enclosing for contrastive purpose a middle section that details the disempowerment of ineffective translation, as voiced by Cambyuskan’s birthday guests. In emphasizing organic horizontality and particularization, Part II’s asymmetrical frame underscores Canacee’s acts of effective translation, enclosing for contrastive purpose a middle section that details the disempowerment of ineffective translation, as voiced by the jilted falcon. Having ultimately posited a foundational moment consisting of the presence of the fabulous, anthropomorphized avian body and mind, the Squire recommits to the contest by reintroducing the marvelous narrative stuff of composite romance, only to be cut off.

A Desert Writing Idiom:

2025-05-29

Nikolaos Lazaridis | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks

“Lying Tales”

2025-05-28

Jonathan S. Burgess | Oxford University Press eBooks

Comparable Travel Tales

2025-05-28

Jonathan S. Burgess | Oxford University Press eBooks

Contexts of Odysseus’ Travels

2025-05-28

Jonathan S. Burgess | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract The introductory chapter explores various contexts of Odysseus’ travels: the Epic Cycle (notably the Nostoi [“Returns”] and the Telegony), comparable mythological travelers (Gilgamesh, Heracles, Perseus), and the genre of … Abstract The introductory chapter explores various contexts of Odysseus’ travels: the Epic Cycle (notably the Nostoi [“Returns”] and the Telegony), comparable mythological travelers (Gilgamesh, Heracles, Perseus), and the genre of travel writing. The characterization of Odysseus by Homer (with differences noted between the Iliad and Odyssey), in the Epic Cycle, and in ancient literature is explored. The chapter also explores the “Homeric World” as suggested by the Odyssey, with discussion of the date of the poem. The socio-economic assumptions of Homeric poetry will serve analysis of the travel tales of the Odyssey and the characterization of Odysseus in later chapters. The introductory chapter also has an excursus on aspects of Homeric poetics deemed “Homeric Vagary,” which will be a theme for close analysis of passages throughout the book.

East of Eden: A Case against Nostalgia

2025-05-28

Cathleen Kaveny | Irish Theological Quarterly

This article argues that the phenomenon of nostalgia (home-sickness or longing for home) is a dangerous and often destructive way of dealing with the past. The first section traces the … This article argues that the phenomenon of nostalgia (home-sickness or longing for home) is a dangerous and often destructive way of dealing with the past. The first section traces the evolution of nostalgia from a medical disease to a sentimental emotion. After developing a normative definition of nostalgia, the second section proceeds to critique the phenomenon. It also distinguishes nostalgia from some of its unproblematic cousins, such as historical study or lamentation for real loss. The third section draws upon the Parable of the Prodigal Son to develop a positive account of what it means for a Christian to return home again.

Wandering to Ithaca

2025-05-28

Jonathan S. Burgess | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Chapter 2 explores the hero’s account of his wanderings to the Phaeacians in Books 9–12 by discussing the travel tale’s spatial, temporal, and socio-economic aspects. The ancient term Apologos … Abstract Chapter 2 explores the hero’s account of his wanderings to the Phaeacians in Books 9–12 by discussing the travel tale’s spatial, temporal, and socio-economic aspects. The ancient term Apologos for Odysseus’ account of his return from the Trojan War is discussed, with contextualization of the hero’s long travel tale within the Phaeacian episode of Books 6–8 and 13. The cosmographical, geographical, and temporal nature of the Apologos (Books 9–12) will be analyzed, and the poetics of Odysseus’ Apologos (themes, ethnography, patterns, causality, and plot) will also be discussed. Close readings of many passages about Odysseus’ narration as well as within the hero’s narration will be featured throughout the chapter.

Leaving Ithaca

2025-05-28

Jonathan S. Burgess | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Chapter 4 first explores the controversial ending of the Odyssey, which may reflect existing or potential further travel by Odysseus. These post-nostos travels include Teiresias’ prediction of Odysseus’ “inland … Abstract Chapter 4 first explores the controversial ending of the Odyssey, which may reflect existing or potential further travel by Odysseus. These post-nostos travels include Teiresias’ prediction of Odysseus’ “inland journey” and Odysseus’ travel to Thesprotia in the Telegony of the Epic Cycle. I will compare the Odyssey and the lost Telegony and discus other lost tales about Odysseus traveling to northwest Greece or the Italian world. Analysis will include exploration of how local places in the ancient world employed stories of a traveling Odysseus to link themselves to the hero. The burial of Elpenor at the island of Circe’s Aeaea will be discussed in the context of Odysseus’ association with Italy, including the Aeaea localized at Monte Circeo on the west coast of Italy.

Book review: Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola MacLeod

2025-05-28

Evgenia Amey | Matkailututkimus

Book review of Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola MacLeod. MacLeod, Nicola. (2024). Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-inspired Travel. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility. Routledge, London. … Book review of Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola MacLeod. MacLeod, Nicola. (2024). Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-inspired Travel. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0367485818; 978-1003041740.