The Art of Travel: Essays on Travel Writing

by Philip Dodd

Overview

First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer, who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714632056
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/1982
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Dodd is the editor of the journal Prose Studies and of a volume of essays on Walter Pater, and the author of a number of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. He is currently working on a study of English Autobiography, 1870–1940.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 “'Tis not to divert the Reader”: Moral and Literary Determinants in some Early Travel Narratives; Chapter 2 The Voyages of Jerónimo Lobo, Joachim Le Grand, and Samuel Johnson; Chapter 3 A Semi-Mental Journey: Structure and Illusion in Smollett's Travels; Chapter 4 ::; Chapter 5 The Spectacle of Reality in Sea and Sardinia; Chapter 6 Debunking the Jungle: The Context of Evelyn Waugh's Travel Books 1930–9, MARTINSTANNARD; Chapter 7 The Views of Travellers: Travel Writing in the 1930s; Chapter 8 Authorial Voice in V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage; Chapter 9 Travel Writing Victorian and Modern: A Review of Recent Research;