| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index. |
| Contents |
"Naked" politics in travel writing / Ulrike Brisson -- Politics of travel writing in 2006 / Bernard Schweizer -- A short walk through Afghanistan : orientalism and its discontent in recent literature / Mark Graham -- Politics of travel writing in fascist Spain / Javier Torre -- Travel in disguise : on travel writing and cultural governance / Hager Weslati -- Personal is political : but is the political personal : women travel writers and their changing political roles / Maureen Mulligan -- Travel writing, emigration laws, and racial whitening in nineteenth-century German-Brazilian history / Gabi R. Kathöfer -- British female radical travelers and the revolution controversy, 1789-1815 / Tsai-Yeh Wang -- A new Æra for Switzerland : political instruction in Helen Maria Williams' and Sophie von La Roche's Swiss travel narratives during the French Revolution / Florence Widmer-Schnyder. |
| Summary |
With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature. The authors make clear that travel and travel writing are never an ""innocent"" enterp. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings. |
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Travel writing -- Political aspects.
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Travel writing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Brisson, Ulrike.
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Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Not so innocent abroad. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009 9781443812979 (DLC) 2009396856 (OCoLC)430511628 |
| ISBN |
9781443815758 (electronic book) |
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1443815756 (electronic book) |
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9781443812979 |
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1443812978 |
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