Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

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Edited by Gary Fisher, David Robinson

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: November 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781785278051

Subjects:: Humanities, General

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic 'authority', each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, 'accompanied' by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect.

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic 'rules' by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Foreword
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-10

Chapter One - ‘Off-Stage, A War’: Wuhan, 1938
pp 11-20

Chapter Two - Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911
pp 21-38

Chapter Three - ‘A Rude People Subjected to No Restraint’: In Tanimbar with Anna Keith Forbes, Henry Forbes and So’u Melatunan
pp 39-50

Chapter Four - Sent to Coventry: A Journey Home?
pp 51-64

Chapter Five - Bedouin Is a Place: Freya Stark’s Travel with Nomads
pp 65-80

Chapter Six - With Wilkie in the West: Reading Wilkie Collins’s Rambles beyond Railways from a Cornish Perspective
pp 81-92

Chapter Seven - Picturing Rome: Walking the Eternal City with the Last Victorian
pp 93-106

Chapter Eight - Su e zo per i ponti; or, How History Does Not Help
pp 107-118

Chapter Nine - A Town Called Entropy: Boom and Bust in Arnold Bennett’s Potteries
pp 119-134

Chapter Ten - Travelling towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa
pp 135-146

Chapter Eleven - Recollections of the King’s House
pp 147-160

Chapter Twelve - Occupying Her Time: Ginette Eboué, France, 1940–42
pp 161-172

Epilogue
pp 173-174

List of Contributors
pp 175-178

Works Cited
pp 179-192

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