Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century Hardcover - 2006

From the rear cover

Filling the Blank Spaces
'This volume will be required reading for anyone seriously interested in nineteenth-century concepts of culture and civilization.'"David Seed, Chair of American Literature, University of Liverpool"
Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia. An additional key feature of the volume is its inclusion of different types of traveller. The volume includes studies of explorers, missionaries, artists and writers, Romantics and socialists, colonialists and indigenes. It covers a range of travels, travellers, and travellers' texts, and aims to establish some of the contexts in which travel took place. This volume is as much about departure points as it is about destinations, revealing the prejudices and precepts of the nineteenth-century traveller. Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. He is the author of Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850-1900 (Manchester University Press, 1994) and editor of Writing and Race (Longman, 1997). He is also co-editor, with Peter Hulme, of The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (CUP, 2002).