Travel Writing

<p>The new edition of <em>Travel Writing</em> is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.</p><p>Considering a wide range of primary sources from Sir Walter Raleigh to Jenny Diski the extensively updated second edition:</p><ul> <li>introduces the genre and outlines key debates within the field such as gender sexuality postcolonial studies and visual culture;</li> <li>explores the genre’s autobiographical dimensions and different approaches for depicting the self;</li> <li>surveys a range of canonical and more marginal works featuring new discussion of refugee and migrant narratives and LGBTQ travel writing;</li> <li>includes a new chapter walking readers through the developments in the genre since the first edition such as online forms environmentalism and ecocriticism and travel writing as an increasingly transnational multicultural genre.</li> </ul><p>With a comprehensive glossary and further reading <em>Travel Writing Second Edition</em> is an ideal primer to the genre for students – bridging the gap between distant times and distant places – as well as offering literary studies scholars an essential overview of current debates in the field.</p>