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Sumner, James D. "Travel writing and satire." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590815.

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The purpose of my thesis is to explore the hlstory of British travel writing and to consider how the literature of exploration, which initially presented itself as factual, evolved into the fictional use of travel writing. In order to provide a context for travel writing, I will be looking at the work of Porter, Mills, Pratt, Chard, Hulme and Youngs before discussing the Grand Tourist ( 1660-1 837) and the growth of mass touri sm under Thomas Cook. In order to consider early-twentieth-century travel writing in this context of mass touri sm, I propose to engage specifically with Peter Fleming's

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Shaw, Cassandra. "South African travel writing and bias." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9011.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-96).<br>This thesis spotlights the travel and leisure magazine industry within South Africa. It contends that the travel writing genre is susceptible to a number of biases, both past and present, which ultimately affect the way its overall content is produced and presented to the public. This work was substantiated through a set of qualitative interviews with key professionals within the South African travel and leisure magazine industry, as well as through a theme- based content analysis of a number of local travel writing publications. This stud

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Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt. "Traveling economies : American women's travel writing /." Columbus : the Ohio state university press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410936852.

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Gephardt, Katarina. "Imagined boundaries the nation and the continent in nineteenth-Century British narratives of European travel /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1070292654.

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Hiller, Alice. "Paradise traduced : transatlantic travel writing, 1777-1840." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248215.

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Majchrowicz, Daniel Joseph. "Travel, Travel Writing and the "Means to Victory" in Modern South Asia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467221.

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This dissertation is a history of the idea of travel in South Asia as it found expression in Urdu travel writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though travel has always been integral to social life in South Asia, it was only during this period that it became an end in itself. The imagined virtues of travel hinged on two emergent beliefs: that travel was a requisite for inner growth, and that travel experience was transferable. Consequently, Urdu travel writers endorsed travel not to reach a particular destination but to engender personal development, social advancement and communal

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Calzati, Stefano. "Mediating travel writing, mediated China : the Middle Kingdom in travel books and blogs." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13702/.

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This thesis looks at travel writing about China crossing three main research axes. The main one is represented by the comparison between Western-authored contemporary travel books and travel blogs. The majority of studies on Western travel writing about China focuses on pre-modern and modern texts, while much less attention has been dedicated to contemporary travelogues. At the same time, by projecting the genre onto the web, this study offers a mapping of the blogosphere and questions the literary and epistemological status of travel writing. Through a close reading analysis, the aim is to ou

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Lisle, Debbie. "Worlds apart : politics, discourse and contemporary travel writing." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311123.

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Maclay, Jeanne. "Homeward bound : late twentieth century domestic travel writing." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7921.

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Bibliography: leaves 121-124.<br>This thesis examines the state-of the-art of the domestic travel writing genre. In the introduction the challenges facing domestic travel writers are presented. The conclusion mentions recent criticisms of domestic travel writing and refutes these, maintaining that the genre can still offer ideas of worth to the public forum. The four chapters framed within the introduction and conclusion are all explorations of particular trends in domestic travel writing.

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Englard, Michael Anselm. "'Grounds for argument' : English literary travel 1911-1941." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610092.

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Wood, Jennifer Linhart. "Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Theater and Travel Writing." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587221.

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<p> My dissertation explores how sound informs the representation of cross-cultural interactions within early modern drama and travel writing. "Sounding" implies the process of producing music or noise, but it also suggests the attempt to make meaning of what one hears. "Otherness" in this study refers to a foreign presence outside of the listening body, as well as to an otherness that is already inherent within. Sounding otherness enacts a bi-directional exchange between a culturally different other and an embodied self; this exchange generates what I term the sonic uncanny, whereby the other

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Mee, Catharine. "Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary French and Italian Travel Writing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504121.

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Winfield, G. "Dream of an elsewhere : contemporary African American travel writing." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2013. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/128/.

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African American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic subjectivity intertwined with corporeal motion. The subsequent emancipatory journey to freedom, as recited in slave narratives, decentred the coercive migrations of the slave trade by coupling the subversive act of self-directed movement through geographical space with a collective understanding of libe

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Bleakley, Sam. "Surfing Haïti, and a new wave of travel writing." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13329/.

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This thesis aims to develop an intermodal surf travel writing through the exploration of, and engagement with, Haïti’s coastline. Actor-network-theory (ANT) provides the methodological and theoretical framework to explore and explain how the key topics - surf, travel (Haïti) and writing - are brought into productive conversation through translation across persons, artefacts and ideas as an expanding network. Fieldwork is structured and informed by postmodern ethnography as the primary research method of ANT approaches. The entire coastline of Haïti is explored through four research trips, w

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Wright, Sarah Bird. "Edith Wharton's travel writing: The making of a connoisseur." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092092.

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Elliott, Andrew Clifford. "Anglophone Travel Writing and the Japanese Interior, 1852-1899." Kyoto University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/142284.

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Kyoto University (京都大学)<br>0048<br>新制・課程博士<br>博士(人間・環境学)<br>甲第16156号<br>人博第539号<br>新制||人||131(附属図書館)<br>22||人博||539(吉田南総合図書館)<br>28735<br>京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生文明学専攻<br>(主査)教授松田清, 教授岡真理, 教授前川玲子<br>学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Martin, Alison Elizabeth. "Sensibility and the rhetoric of travel writing : representations of England in German travel accounts, 1783-1830." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614790.

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Bowman, James William. "NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195057.

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Travelers' experiences in Cyprus and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, politics, and aesthetics of narration and self-representation create the tropes that fix other people in ideological space. This analysis examines the production of difference in selected travel narratives set in Cyprus in the later modern era, which coincides with the rise of anti-colonial politics,

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Heaps, Denise Adele. "Gendered discourse and subjectivity in travel writing by Canadian women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49882.pdf.

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Moore, Willby Melissa. "Destination USA : William Least Heat-Moon and American travel writing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326906.

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Destination USA examines the works of the travel writer William Least Heat-Moon and his place ·in the tradition of American travel writing. The study begins with an overview of the current scholarship and trends within contemporary American travel writing and then moves on to limit and to define its scope. Next an outline and an in-depth explanation of the structure and thematics of such works is presented. Contemporary American travel writing has two dominant structures: the on-the~road motif and the intimate journey Of~ place. Woven into these two structures are three main themes common to b

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McArthur, S. G. "Being European : Russian travel writing and the Balkans, 1804-1877." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20181/.

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This thesis examines the ways in which Russian identity was articulated in the early to mid-nineteenth century through the medium of travel writing. Russian identity has traditionally been examined by analysing the country’s relationship with Western Europe, whilst travel writing has typically focused on the paradigm of the Self/Other opposition. This work demonstrates that these conventional patterns of analysis are too simplistic. Rather than addressing the topic as a set of binarisms (Self/Other, Russia/The West), this thesis presents a triangular pattern of analysis. Many of the travellers

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Roberts, Zoe. "Mapping generic territory : the pedagogy and practice of travel writing." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8070.

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This thesis engages with travel writing at two levels: pedagogically and practically. It discusses at length, the unique configuration of travel writing’s literary currencies and conventions. Primary linguistic data were collected from travel texts collated within a portfolio of the researcher’s own negotiated and sustained practice as a travel writer. Within this portfolio the researcher engaged with a variety of travel text types, including a travel blog, prose and a poem. A close reading of these portfolio texts is presented, along with the introduction of the Aim, Design, Assessment (ADA)

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Stammwitz, Kati. ""Travel writing the empire doesn't imply" : Studien zum postkolonialen Reisebericht /." Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verl, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389359935.

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Butler, Shannon Marie. "Travel narratives in dialogue contesting representations of nineteenth-century Peru /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110211109.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 194 p. Includes bibliographical references (p.180-192). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Grasso, Joshua. "STRANGE ADVENTURES, PROFITABLE OBSERVATIONS: TRAVEL WRITING AND THE CITIZEN-TRAVELER, 1690-1760." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1150605738.

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Dafydd, Seiriol. "Intercultural and intertextual encounters in Michael Roes' travel fiction." Thesis, Swansea University, 2013. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42453.

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This thesis focuses on intertextuality in four key examples of Michael Roes' fictional travel literature. It places Roes' oeuvre within the wider context of both supposedly factual and avowedly fictional travel writing. I argue that Roes' use of intertextuality is inextricably linked to his vision of a cosmopolitan intercultural encounter and that his work offers alternative perspectives with which contemporary debates about identity can be understood. The four main chapters reveal that each novel acclaims, undermines, or throws new' light on its respective intertexts in different ways. The ch

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Corso, Sandro. "De inventio Sardiniæ : the idea of Sardinia in historical and travel writing 1780-1955." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7888.

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This thesis investigates the way the national identity of Sardinia was perceived in travel literature – and more particularly the way writing about travel experiences contributed to shape identity, both of the visited place and of its inhabitants. The thesis draws from different sources (travelogues, belles lettres, history books); the work reflects therefore a rather eclectic panorama. For obvious reasons the research field has been circumscribed in time and space, but , but aims at drawing general conclusions, i.e. assessing whether national identities are the result of an endogenous process

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SANTOS, CLAUDETE DAFLON DOS. "THE TRAVEL AND WRITING REFLECTION ABOUT THE TRAVELS IMPORTANCE IN THE INTELLECTUAL GRADUATION AND PRODUCTION WRITER-TRAVELLERS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3291@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O presente trabalho discute como o estudo das relações entre escrita e viagem pode ser um ponto de vista privilegiado para se pensar a formação e a produção intelectual de alguns escritores-viajantes brasileiros que viajaram entre o final do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do XX. Considerando-se a existência de diferentes modos de viajar e escrever, foi proposta a construção teórica de duas linhagens de viajantes cujas concepções de viagem, distintas entre si, teriam importante repercussão na escrita. Tratar-se-ia das lin

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Porter, Eleanor L. "Eye to I : quests for nature and the self in heroic travel narrative." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295304.

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Byrom, John D. "The lure of the tour : literary reaction to travel in Scotland, 1760-1833." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1997. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU093180.

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This Thesis aims to survey how writers reacted to "The Tour" of Scotland between 1760 - 1833. The first two chapters show how the early travellers were affected by their differing opinions about the romantic, mythical works of Ossian, reinvented by James Macpherson but opposed by the more scientific approach of Scotland of Thomas Pennant and Samuel Johnson. This leads to a consideration of the nature of the more general tour books of the period, their shared literariness and coherence of picturesque convention which established the tour, mixed with progressive concerns of social and agricultur

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Burns, James Robert. "William Lithgow's Totall Discourse (1632) and his 'Science of the World' : a seventeenth-century Protestant traveller's view of Europe and the near East." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339776.

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Smith, David V. "Tourism and the formation of the writer : three case studies." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4034/.

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In the nineteenth century a vogue for travel writing emerged as writers began to describe experiences of foreign travel in a style quite different from realistic Grand Tour narratives. In their travel writing, Byron, Shelley and Dickens display an impression of the complexities of modernity rather than present a mimetic and conformist view of the world. The study shows how travel writers represent the manifold nature of tourist experience through a composite presentation of subject which despite its heterogeneity lays claim to a unity of knowledge. This thesis discusses the impact of tourism o

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Labon, Joanna. "English literary response to 1930s Europe in Rebecca West's 'Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia in 1937' (1941) and Storm Jameson's 'Europe to let: the memoirs of an obscure man' (1940)." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325548.

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Lawson, Helen Margaret. "Navigating Northumbria : mobility, allegory, and writing travel in early medieval Northumbria." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25938.

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The social fact of movement is a significant underlying feature of early medieval Northumbria, as it is for other regions and other periods. The eighth-century Anglo- Latin hagiographical tradition that centres on Bede (673-735) is not known for its articulacy concerning travel, and what is expressed might well be overlooked for its brevity. This thesis explores the relationship between allegories and symbolism, and the underlying travel-culture in prose histories and hagiographies produced in Northumbria in the early eighth century. It demonstrates the wide extent to which travel was meaningf

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LaFramboise, Lisa N. "Travellers in skirts, women and english-language travel writing in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq23012.pdf.

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Dolphin, Tania. "The discursive construction of Hunza, Pakistan, in travel writing, 1889-1999." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0020/MQ48423.pdf.

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Forbes, Lisa Catherine. "Travel writing and the renegotiation of the English landscape, 1760-1800." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3432.

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In this paper it is illustrated that late eighteenth-century English travel guidebook writers promoted idyllic rural landscapes that met or were created to meet picturesque tastes while concurrently advocating the alteration of regional landscapes by means of agriculture, industry and transportation routes. While the impulses behind nostalgic and developed landscapes are at cross-purposes, both were concepts used by guidebook authors to renegotiate perceptions of their local regions: the former to exhibit regional beauties and marvels by appealing to the prevailing aesthetics, the latter to co

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Turner, Katherine S. H. "The politics of narrative singularity in British travel writing, 1750-1800." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296251.

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Ferradas, Claudia Mónica. "Re-defining Anglo-Argentine literature : from travel writing to travelling identities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13238/.

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This study proposes a definition of Anglo-Argentine literature, a literary corpus that has not been explicitly defined, and provides a reading list of Anglo-Argentine works on the basis of that definition. The research is based on the presupposition that Anglo-Argentine texts can be used to contribute to an intercultural approach to language and literature teaching in the Argentine higher education context. Such texts can encourage reflection on how writing on Argentina in English has contributed to constructing Argentina's multiple identities. Therefore, compiling the titles that make up the

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Walchester, Kathryn. "'Our own fair Italy' : women's travel writing and Italy, 1800-1844." Thesis, Keele University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409552.

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Kumojima, Tomoe. "Of friendship and hospitality : Victorian women's travel writing on Meiji Japan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:545e605a-9361-485a-878c-dabb76da9822.

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This thesis explores the possibility and challenges of international/interracial female friendship and anti-communitarian hospitality through writings of Victorian female travellers to Meiji Japan between 1854 and 1918. It features three travellers, viz. Isabella Bird, Mary Crawford Fraser, and Marie Stopes. The introduction delineates the context of key events in the Anglo-Japanese relationship and explores the representation of Japan in Victorian travelogues and literary works. Chapter I considers the philosophical dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida on com

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Canton, James. "From Cairo to Baghdad : British Travel Writing on Arabia, 1882-2003." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495574.

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From Cairo to Baghdad explores British travel writing on Arabia, from 1882 when Britain occupied Egypt until the invasion of Iraq by British troops in 2003. The work is a gentle untying of the entanglement of travel writing on Arabia and British imperial history, for the two are intricately linked. As British imperial activity flourished in Arabia from the First World War to the 1930s, so too British travel writing thrived. Britain's departure, commencing in the 1950s, saw a distinct decline in the production of travel texts, and the gradual evolution of the post-imperial travelogue. Eight cha

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Dolphin, Tania (Tania Joanna) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "The Discursive construction of Hunza, Pakistan in travel writing: 1889-1999." Ottawa, 2000.

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Jones, Andrew Cessna. "Exposing romantic folly comic performance in Mark Twain's foreign travel writing /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Gerardi, Arauz G. "Travel writing : the work of Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1416280/.

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This thesis examines travel and the configuration of the desert within literary works by Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer. Travel is considered not only in literal terms but as a journey that occurs within the writing itself. The deserts where these authors set their texts - the Sonoran desert and Patagonia - have been sites through which complex questions of historical and personal identity, migration, crime and colonialism have been explored. This thesis demonstrates how the work of both authors engages with traditions of writing about travel and the desert which range from conquest and cap

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Beattie-Smith, Gillian L. "Romantic subjectivity : women's identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2017. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/romantic-subjectivity(349c0dbd-3b37-4b79-b18d-623aa76f421e).html.

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Women's identities are created and performed relational to the contexts in which they live and by which they are bound. Identities are performed within and against those contexts. Romantic subjectivity: women's identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland, is concerned with the location of women and their creation and construction of relational identity in their personal narratives of the nineteenth century. The texts taken for study are travel journals, memoirs, and diaries, each of which narrates times and journeys in Scotland. The subjects of study are three women writ

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Hammond, Andrew. "The debated lands : British travel writing and the construction of the Balkans." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1284/.

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Surveying an extensive range of British travel texts, the thesis explores the manner in which the Balkans have been viewed as a significant `other' of British civilisation over the last one hundred and fifty years, particularly from 1989 to 2001, between the demise of the communist adversary and the rise of `global terrorism'. The thesis pursues three major objectives, all of which advance upon previous studies of cross-cultural representation and travel writing. Firstly, I argue that despite its heterogeneous nature, balkanist discourse has passed through three distinct paradigms. These are d

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Reimann-Dawe, Tracey. "Time, identity and nation in German travel writing on Africa 1848-1914." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/165/.

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Between 1848 and 1914 a wave of German explorers travelled to Africa, enticed by the promise of geographical, botanical and anthropological discovery. Each Afrikareisender composed a narrative account of his German-African encounters and so produced a characteristic mode of travel writing. These works reflect not only the author’s experience of their own identity, but also represent Germany’s evolving sense of national identity during a period of extensive internal political turmoil which saw the consolidation of the German nation-state in 1871, its emergence as a colonial power in Africa afte

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Garrick, Justin Anthony. "Journeys in perspective : critical approaches to the travel writing of Freya Stark." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619647.

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Polezzi, Loredana. "Resiting genre : a study of contemporary Italian travel writing in English translation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3996/.

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This thesis aims to highlight the presence of a large and varied production of contemporary Italian travel writing and to analyse the reasons for its 'invisibility' in the Italian literary system and critical tradition. Through the use of a comparative approach to genre and of current theories developed in the area of Translation Studies, the thesis will outline the different status attributed to travel writing in the Anglo-American and the Italian literary systems. Such a comparative approach allows the study to escape the narrow confines of a perspective based on the idea of national literat

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