Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin.
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Casey Blanton teaches English and humanities at Daytona Beach Community College and is Co-editor of Southern Quarterly's special issue on photography.
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I mistakenly bought this book thinking it would teach me how to write travel articles. Actually it might benefit aspiring travel writers to study the greats of the genre. This analyzes in-depth Graham Greene, Bruce Chatwin, Mary Kingsley, James Boswell, Peter Matthiessen, and V.S. Naipaul.Along with studying them, you learn about types of travel writing (nature travel, modern psychological journey, vain travelers, Victorian women travelers). This combination of history of travel writing and literary criticism makes heavy reading but should be useful to those wondering "what was Bruce Chatwin trying to say in Songlines?"
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Melville's Ishmael, sole survivor of an epic journey and something of a travel writer himself, discovers the central dilemma of travel literature when he begins to tell the reader of Moby-Dick about Queequeg's home: It is not down on any map. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Kingsley, West Africa, Grand Tour, Bruce Chatwin, Peter Matthiessen, General Paoli, Marco Polo, Crystal Monastery, Dennis Porter, Gertrude Bell, Evelyn Waugh, Isabella Bird, James Clifford, North Africa, Paul Fussell, Mungo Park, Samuel Johnson New!
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Melville's Ishmael, sole survivor of an epic journey and something of a travel writer himself, discovers the central dilemma of travel literature when he begins to tell the reader of Moby-Dick about Queequeg's home: It is not down on any map. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Kingsley, West Africa, Grand Tour, Bruce Chatwin, Peter Matthiessen, General Paoli, Marco Polo, Crystal Monastery, Dennis Porter, Gertrude Bell, Evelyn Waugh, Isabella Bird, James Clifford, North Africa, Paul Fussell, Mungo Park, Samuel Johnson New!
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- In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin on 8 pages
- Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley on 8 pages
- The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen on 7 pages
- Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt on 5 pages
- Voyage of the Beagle (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Charles Darwin on 5 pages
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- The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing by Debbie Lisle on 8 pages
- Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature by Alison Russell on page 3, and Back Matter
- Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913: An Anthology of Travel Writing (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by David N. Wells in Front Matter
- A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey by Nancy Micklewright in Back Matter
- Nature Writing (Genres in Context) by Don Scheese in Front Matter
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