Illusion and disillusionment : travel writing in the modern age /
Illusion and disillusionment : travel writing in the modern age /
Travel writing in the modern age
edited by Roberta Micallef.
- viii, 182 pages ; 23 cm.
- Ilex Foundation series ; 18 .
- Ilex Foundation series ; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Desire, truth, and propaganda: Lay and ecclesiastical travellers from Europe to China in the long eighteenth century / Travel, adventure, and self-fashioning: A Frenchman's journey to New Orleans in 1729 / Gothic fiction, the Grand Tour, and the seductions of antiquity: Polidori's The Vampyre (1919) / The Chameleonic identities of Mohan Lal Kashmari and his travels in Persianate lands / Fellow travellers? Two Arab study abroad narratives of Moscow / Imaginary travels: Halide Edib's illusory encounters with India / A glimpse of the American west: A French schoolteacher's 1893 pioneering adventure / The travels of a Japanese "girl": Yoshiya Nobuko's 1928-29 World tour / Roberta Micallef -- Eugenio Menegon -- Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- James Uden -- Sunil Sharma -- Margaret Litvin -- Roberta Micallef -- Mary Beth Raycroft -- Sarah Frederick.
"Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French schoolteacher touring America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe—this volume extends the study of travel writing beyond the frameworks of colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself."--Publisher's website.
0674984471 9780674984479
2018020374
Travel writing.
Travelers--Psychology
Perception.
G156 / .I525 2018
910.4
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Desire, truth, and propaganda: Lay and ecclesiastical travellers from Europe to China in the long eighteenth century / Travel, adventure, and self-fashioning: A Frenchman's journey to New Orleans in 1729 / Gothic fiction, the Grand Tour, and the seductions of antiquity: Polidori's The Vampyre (1919) / The Chameleonic identities of Mohan Lal Kashmari and his travels in Persianate lands / Fellow travellers? Two Arab study abroad narratives of Moscow / Imaginary travels: Halide Edib's illusory encounters with India / A glimpse of the American west: A French schoolteacher's 1893 pioneering adventure / The travels of a Japanese "girl": Yoshiya Nobuko's 1928-29 World tour / Roberta Micallef -- Eugenio Menegon -- Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- James Uden -- Sunil Sharma -- Margaret Litvin -- Roberta Micallef -- Mary Beth Raycroft -- Sarah Frederick.
"Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French schoolteacher touring America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe—this volume extends the study of travel writing beyond the frameworks of colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself."--Publisher's website.
0674984471 9780674984479
2018020374
Travel writing.
Travelers--Psychology
Perception.
G156 / .I525 2018
910.4