New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘A Study rather than a Rapture’: Isabella Bird on Japan

Chapter 3 On Top of the World: Tourist’s Spectacular Self-Locations as Multimodal Travel Writing

Chapter 4 The Garden of Forking Paths: Paratexts in Travel Literature

Chapter 5 Metaphor, Travel, and the (Un)making of the Steppe

Chapter 6 ‘That mighty Wall, not fabulous/ China’s stupendous mound!’ Romantic Period Accounts of China’s ‘Great Wall’

Chapter 8 Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies

Chapter 9 Travel Literature and the Infrastructural Unconscious

Chapter 10 ‘Take out your machine’: Narratives of Early Motorcycle Travel

Chapter 11 ‘The thing which is not’: Mapping the Fantastic History of the Great Southern Continent

Chapter 12 Locating Guam: the Cartography of the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez’s Remapping of Unincorporated Territory

Chapter 13 Map Reading in Travel Writing: the ‘Explorers’ Maps’ of Mexico, This Month

Chapter 14 The Travellee’s Eye: Reading European Travel Writing, 1750–1850

Chapter 15 Anthropology/Travel/Writing: Strange Encounters with James Clifford and Nicolas Rothwell

Chapter 16 Travel and Utopia

Chapter 17 Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878

Chapter 18 Afropolitan Travels: ‘Discovering Home’ and the World in Africa

Chapter 19 Revising the ‘Contact Zone’: William Adams, Reception History and the Opening of Japan, 1600–1860