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Autobiografie --- Autobiographie --- Autobiography --- James, Henry --- Prose --- Reisbeschrijvingen [Amerikaanse ] --- History and criticism --- Authors [American ] --- Biography --- Criticism --- United States --- History --- James, Henry (1843-1916) --- Critique --- Écrivains américains --- Autobiographie américaine --- Récits de voyages américains --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience. Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why. This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present, addressing the work of canonical authors such as T. E. Lawrence, W. H. Auden and Rebecca West; best-sellers by Peter Fleming and H. V. Morton; and texts by Colin Thubron, Andrew X. Pham, Rosemary Mahoney, and others. It argues that the genre's most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence, cultural upheaval, and decline. It will interest scholars and students of travel writing, modernism and postmodernism, English and American literature, and the history and sociology of travel.

Travelers' writings, English --- Travelers' writings, American --- Modernism (Literature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Travel in literature. --- Travel writing --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Voyage --- Récits de voyages anglais. --- Récits de voyages américains. --- Postmodernisme et littérature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Dans la littérature. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Crepuscolarismo --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Récits de voyages anglais. --- Récits de voyages américains. --- Postmodernisme et littérature. --- Dans la littérature.

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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.

Travelers' writings, English --- Travelers' writings, American --- English prose literature --- Travelers' writings --- Travel in literature. --- Travelers --- Ecrits de voyageurs anglais --- Ecrits de voyageurs américains --- Prose anglaise --- Ecrits de voyageurs --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Voyageurs --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Ecrits de voyageurs américains --- Voyage dans la littérature --- British --- Voyages and travels --- Travel writing --- Travel in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- History --- English-speaking countries --- Intellectual life. --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Geography --- Adventure and adventurers --- Travel --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- Historiography. --- RECITS DE VOYAGES ANGLAIS --- RECITS DE VOYAGES AMERICAINS --- PROSE ANGLAISE --- VOYAGES --- VOYAGE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- VOYAGEURS --- PAYS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- HISTORIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE