{"title":"Le Voyage pédestre dans la littérature non fictionnelle de langue allemande. Wanderung et Wanderschaft entre 1770 et 1850","authors":"Nikol Dziub","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1864077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1864077","url":null,"abstract":"This monumental two-volume book, a revised version of the author’s thesis, fills a gap. Until this publication, the walking journey had remained understudied, lacking almost everything that makes a...","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"389 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1864077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49060353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representations of Montenegrins in Italian travelogues on the occasion of the Savoy-Petrović wedding","authors":"Oliver Popovic","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1936736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1936736","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the image of Montenegrins in various Italian travelogues published at a time of significant interest among Italians about Montenegro, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interest was encouraged by the marriage of the Italian Crown Prince Victor Emanuel to the Montenegrin Princess Jelena Petrović-Njegoš in 1896. By comparing the descriptions of Montenegrins in the books published in the ten years after that event, the article determines which features the Italian authors wanted to present to their readers, to what extent their presentation differs from the discourse about Montenegrins in the travel accounts published in earlier decades and which factors might have had an impact on this paradigm shift.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"335 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1936736","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44451794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, Drama, and the Wider World","authors":"Natalya Din-Kariuki","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1858557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1858557","url":null,"abstract":"In Quo vadis? (“where are you going?”), a polemic against travel published in 1617, Joseph Hall declared: “he […] that travels onely to please his fantasie, is like some woman with childe, that lon...","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"385 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1858557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47704492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From endnotes to the ends of the earth: Moore, Staël, and romantic transport","authors":"Jessie Reeder","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1930691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1930691","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scholarship on travel writing tends to focus on accounts by writers who spent time in the places they depict. But neither Romantic-era nor twenty-first-century cognitive theory gives such a limited notion of travel. Lalla Rookh (1817), a hybrid poetic text by Irish writer Thomas Moore, presents the idea that reading is a form of travel that provides access to distant places. Moore had never been to the lands – India, Egypt, Persia – about which he wrote, but rather constructed his text through meticulous research. In both Lalla Rookh’s text and paratext Moore makes the Orientalist argument that his research gave him the same experience of the East as one who had seen it first-hand. Through readings of Lalla Rookh and Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy, this essay argues that “travel” studies might benefit from the more capacious notion of “transport” as a disciplinary and conceptual category.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"301 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1930691","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46488484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passage through India: self-fashioning in Santha Rama Rau’s Indian travel narratives","authors":"Durba Mukherjee, Sayan Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1946735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1946735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the self-fashioning of the cosmopolitan travel writer Santha Rama Rau (1923–2009) as a quintessentially “Indian” memoirist for her metropolitan audience of the global North. The article explores how her self-fashioning involves a complex duality that underlines most of Rau’s travel writings on India with a characteristic sense of aporia. In these travel writings, Rau lays claim to her Indian identity on the basis of her Indian birth and parentage and her extensive travels within the subcontinent. However, Rau’s American education which had taught her to value individuality and economic independence made it difficult for her to associate completely with the patriarchal structure of contemporary Indian middle-class families. Thus, this piece analyses the way Rau negotiates with the crisis by dissociating herself from the Indian middle-class domestic space while framing her identity as a travelling “career woman” who claims the entire subcontinent for home.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"366 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1946735","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41768061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You feel embodied with the cataract:” American girls, landscape and national identity in the early republic","authors":"S. Halevi","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1949094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1949094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines how American girls and young women in the early republic formed a new sense of a “corporeal” national identity while touring areas of the Hudson River valley and the Great Lakes. Based on a reading of the travel writings of fifteen white, middle and upper-middle class, American girls and young women travelling between 1802 and 1835, it demonstrates first that during the tours within the United States the girls underwent a multisensory familiarisation with the landscape, which both bolstered their confidence and concretised much of their theoretical knowledge gained during their studies. Second, when touring the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes their focus was on constructing both its landscape and its people as “other”. The article closes with a consideration of how these young women’s travel writings may offer a new perspective for the study of a gendered national identity formation in the early United States.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"318 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1949094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43409486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bengali travel writings on Soviet Russia in the Cold War era","authors":"Weronika Rokicka","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1943817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1943817","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the perception of the Soviet Union in Indian travelogues written in the Bengali language during the Cold War era. The distinctive feature of these travel accounts is a strong focus on various aspects of Soviet social and economic life, from the education system, conditions in factories, and public housing to gender equality. The article argues that the travellers’ fascination with the Soviet system is a postcolonial phenomenon. For Indians, and especially Bengalis heavily influenced by western education, England was for decades the reference point to judge their country’s modernity and advancement. With the fall of colonialism many sought a new ideal to look up to and, as the travelogues demonstrate, some Indians found it in Russia and the Soviet system which became a new synonym of modernity.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"352 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1943817","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43140529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pictures From Italy: Dickens’s selfie and Victorian baroque","authors":"F. Orestano","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1919434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1919434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By analysing the history, conventions, and status of the travel book as a genre, this article highlights Dickens’s inimitable departures from its acknowledged form in Pictures from Italy (1846). This text purports to be an exception among travel books, to the extent that in today’s parlance Dickens is at once keen on visual impressions enhanced by the codes of optical technology; his viewpoint, similes, analogies, send the reader constantly back to England and himself. Such a strategy of displaced topicality affects Dickens’s portrayal of Italy, as it is likely to produce a belated shock of recognition when the condition of England, in later years, suggests similarities with Italy and with the rule of Baroque exceptions occurring in Italy as well as in England.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"238 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1919434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60109166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"En route: Helen Keller’s travels","authors":"Marie Garnier","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1889119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1889119","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From a triple perspective including travel writing studies, disability studies and gender studies, this article addresses a corpus of works and letters by deafblind activist and political writer Helen Keller (1880–1968). An experimental, collective sensorium emerges from Keller’s strange prose, its passion for speed and machinic rhythms contrasting with its more lyrical moments. As a socialist, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a Wobbly, and as the first deafblind woman to graduate from Radcliffe college, she was not only an exceptional individual; she had to critically adjust to the values of American “exceptionalism”, and claimed her interest for “matters-that-are-not-me”. Her countless voyages, business trips and journeys in the company of other women – her helpers – were the occasion for novel orientations in space as well as in gender. Looking “back” at her writings involves blindly groping into the future of queer studies.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"222 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1889119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48258019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frederick Law Olmsted: a pragmatic exception to Transcendental writing","authors":"Benjamin Ferguson","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1902097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1902097","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There has been a resurgence of interest in Frederick Law Olmsted’s career, yet his landscape architecture tends to overshadow his travel writing. This article offers a re-appraisal of his literary oeuvre, which, in its often epistolary and direct style, along with his uniquely technical eye, may strongly resonate with a technology-focused twenty-first century that prizes pragmatic and journalistic writing on topics of social problem-solving. The article suggests that Olmsted’s work serves as an important reference point for a strain of US travel writers whose work is similar to that of the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists in focusing on a shift away from Europe and toward finding identity – and perhaps “transcendence” – in American “wildness”, but who can be seen as exceptions to that movement for their practical, often technocratic, approaches, as they mix their diverse careers with their travel writing.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"283 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1902097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44102193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}