Contemporary Travel Narratives

Contemporary Travel Narratives Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Introduction: Travel Writing Today
• Criticism: Major Authors
  • ‘Writing in the Dark’: The Political Fictions of American Travel Writing
  • Motion and Mischief: Contemporary British Travel Writing
  • Writing Over the Map of Provence: The Touristic Therapy of A Year in Provence
  • Mediterranean Travel Writing: From Etruscan Places to Under the Tuscan Sun
• Criticism: Modern Travel Writing
  • From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Literary Tourism and the Discourse of Cannibalism from Herman Melville to Paul Theroux
  • Punctuating Travel: Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin
• Criticism: Women Writers And Travel
  • Women ‘Writing’ Nature: Exploring Contemporary Travelers and the Idea of Home
  • On the Road: (Auto)Mobility and Gendered Detours
• Further Reading