Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing

This insightful collection of essays offers a dynamic and multifaceted evaluation of the study of English travel literature in France, blending diverse theoretical approaches with emerging perspectives both within French scholarship and beyond. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolving boundaries of travel writing.

-Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, Oxford University, UK

This richly varied collection amply demonstrates that both travel writing and travel writing studies are alive and well. The essays gathered here present innovative new readings of canonical and neglected historical works, and place a new scholarly spotlight on the most recent writings of both established authors and the new voices testing the formal limits of contemporary travel writing. Crucially, the renewed emphasis on text as well as context, and the underpinning conception of British travel writing as a generic body, provides an important reassertion of confidence in the scholarship of travel and its literature in the twenty-first century

-Tim HanniganAssistant Lecturer in Writing and Literature, Atlantic Technological University Sligo, Ireland

Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing highlights the ways in which travel writing pushes the boundaries of form, subjectivity, genre, and rhetorical technique as scholars attempt to redefine the field and break the perception of it as rooted in imperialism and exploitation. This book illustrates the promise of travel writing to reveal the complexity and contradiction in the relationship between the traveller, the writer, and the world around us.

-Kate Stephenson, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA