Keywords for Travel Writing Studies

A Critical Glossary

Edited by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester

Publication date:

22 April 2019

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783089222

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, the style more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors reflecting on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Abroad; Adventure; Aesthetic; Affect; Anthropology; Arrival; Beaten Track; Body; Border; Boredom; Breakdown; Cartography; City; Class; Clothing; Coevalness; Colonialism; Companion; Contact Zone; Counterpoint; Curiosity; Dark Tourism; Death; Diaspora; Disability; Domestic Ritual; End-of-Travel; Ethics; Ethinicity; Exotic; Extreme Travel; Fiction; Form; Gender; Genre; Ghosts; Grand Tour; Hearing; History; Home; Home Tour; Humour; Identity; Illustration; Intermediaries; Intertextuality; Islands; Local Colour; Margins; Memory; Migration; Minority; Mobility; Monarch-of-All-I-Survey; Money; Motivation; Nation; Nature; Nomadism; Orientalism; Pedestrianism; Persona; Picturesque; Pilgrimage; Place; Poetics; Politics; Polygraphy; Primitivism; Psychoanalysis; Psychogeography; Reading; Science; Self; Semiotics; Sex/Sexuality; Skin; Slowness; Smell; Solitude; Subjectivity; Sublime; Taste; Technology; Time; Tourism; Trade; Translation;; Transport; Travel; Traveller/Travellee; Utopia; Velocity; Vertical Travel; Virtual Travel; Vision; War; Water; Wonder; World; Bibliography.

‘This is a quirky, wide-ranging and very useful book that will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in travel writing.’
—Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK