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Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge
Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary
approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume
adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a
specific aspect of travel writing - a recurrent motif, an
organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include
a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the
volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical
range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors'
introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of
the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future
developments.
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing
mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East,
Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by
international scholars that examines some of the various contexts
of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics.
Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and
memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel
writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays
display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it
does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender,
'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The
collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues
facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed
discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related
forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case
studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to
the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and
geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and
researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across
the Humanities.
Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by
new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are
drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics,
anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through
a time-span from Ancient Greece to the present day, and a
geographical coverage from Australia and Europe to the Caribbean
and the United States, the collection investigates the importance
of place, moment, cultural formation and subject identity in racial
representation. A substantial introduction establishes the
connections between the essays and lucidly summarizes recent
thinking on race, explaining in particular the relevance of debates
about ethnography.Accessible and stimulating, Writing and Race is a
multidisciplinary collection that will be of interest to students,
researchers, and lecturers who study or are interested in race. The
essays represent a variety of critical approaches, thus allowing
the reader to compare and contrast the benefits of each approach.
Extracts of some of the texts that are discussed are included along
with an extensive bibliography to encourage further study.
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing
mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East,
Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by
international scholars that examines some of the various contexts
of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics.
Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and
memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel
writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays
display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it
does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender,
'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The
collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues
facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed
discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related
forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case
studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to
the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and
geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and
researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across
the Humanities.
Widely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this
book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis
of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is
the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts.
Voyage Charters provides the reader with a clause-by-clause
analysis of the two major charterparty forms: the Gencon standard
charterparty contract and the Asbatankvoy form. It also delivers
thorough treatment of COGSA and the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, a
comparative analysis of English and United States law, and a
detailed section on arbitration awards. This book is an
indispensable, practical guide for both contentious and
non-contentious shipping law practitioners, and postgraduate
students studying this area of law.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of
travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This
literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender
difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism,
anthropology and slavery.
Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by
new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are
drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics,
anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through
a time-span from Ancient Greece to the present day, and a
geographical coverage from Australia and Europe to the Caribbean
and the United States, the collection investigates the importance
of place, moment, cultural formation and subject identity in racial
representation. A substantial introduction establishes the
connections between the essays and lucidly summarizes recent
thinking on race, explaining in particular the relevance of debates
about ethnography. Accessible and stimulating, Writing and Race is
a multidisciplinary collection that will be of interest to
students, researchers, and lecturers who study or are interested in
race. The essays represent a variety of critical approaches, thus
allowing the reader to compare and contrast the benefits of each
approach. Extracts of some of the texts that are discussed are
included along with an extensive bibliography to encourage further
study.
Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge
Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary
approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume
adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a
specific aspect of travel writing - a recurrent motif, an
organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include
a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the
volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical
range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors'
introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of
the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future
developments.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Bats, beetles,
wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders
are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of
literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic
novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism,
political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the
human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines
these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less
familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the
mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have
been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical
alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur
Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar
Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes
in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and
economic crises. Metaphors of travel - social, spatial, temporal,
mythical and psychological - keep these stories on the move,
confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical
shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys will appeal to anyone
interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century
literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in
the fin de siecle and in metaphors of travel, animals and
shape-changing.
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.
Grandad introduces you to Hellie and the Sensational Magic Carpet,
an exciting adventure story for boys and girls (aged 7 to 10 years)
that whisks you away on a mystery journey with Hellie and her
friends, Sumera, Benji and Jaffa, her dog. Hellie and the
Sensational Magic Carpet can be more than just a story book. There
are reflection questions throughout the book which encourage
imaginary games and stories, helping to bring alive children's
imagination and connection to all of their senses. Includes
extended learning suggestions and further activities.
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