Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves, offering a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism.
Alasdair Pettinger is an independent scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published on travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His books include the anthology Always Elsewhere (1998) and Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 (2018).
Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, 2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (edited with Nandini Das, 2019).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs
Part One: Framing Travel
Part Two: Modes of Writing
Part Three: Sensuous Geographies
Part Four: Interactions
Part Five: Paratexts
Works Cited
Index