Stay eat love: travel books, Italy and the emotional geographies of place.

Abstract

Abstract This chapter seeks to understand the way in which emotions are located within the consumption of places in Italy as communicated through travel book narratives. As such, 20 travel books about Italy were analysed under an interpretive paradigm of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Applying latent content analysis ensured that the texts were interpreted cognizant of the context and symbolism with which they were written in order to allow the authors' original meanings to materialize. Through this analysis, three key themes emerged: transformation, home and belonging, and emotional geographies.