Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in
the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an
object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of
the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the
nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad
volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing
on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia. An
additional key feature of the volume will be its inclusion of
different types of traveller. Several types of travellers and
travel texts are considered in the collection. The volume includes
studies of explorers, missionaries, artists and writers, Romantics
and socialists, colonialists and indigenes. It covers, therefore, a
range of travels, travellers, and travellers' texts, and aims to
establish some of the contexts in which travel took place. This
volume is as much about departure points as it is about
destinations, revealing the prejudices and precepts of the
nineteenth-century traveller.
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