{"title":"Working, travelling, and identity: J.B. Priestley’s English Journey (1934)","authors":"Kathryn Walchester","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2021.1882073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1882073","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The motivation for travel is central to its form and content. This article addresses an under-represented area of travel writing: the travel text that results from a journey undertaken for work purposes. By considering J. B. Priestley’s English Journey as a case-study, it argues that the text’s critical reception, at first disorientated and confused, and later dominated by historical and political readings, has resulted from Priestley’s emphasis on work rather than leisure. In his text Priestley explores the relationship of work and identity, and his own position as writer and traveller is central to this, symbolised in his preoccupation with the figure of the travelling salesman.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"157 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2021.1882073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42167827","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":"Mapping in process: discourse analysis of the Alpine Club’s periodicals","authors":"Samia Ounoughi","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1862953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1862953","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Alpine Club of London, founded in 1857, was the first Alpine Club in the world. Its periodicals, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers and The Alpine Journal provide important travel narratives which record the members’ mountain-explorations. This interdisciplinary article aims to show the alpinists’ contributions in two domains. First, by mapping the Alps their geographical accomplishments were considerable. Their additions to existing maps were also the result of their success in changing dead-ends into tracks and routes. Based on the exploration of a digitalised corpus of these periodicals (1858–1899), this article reveals some of the most salient traits of the discourse on their shaping of borders. This approach involves discourse analysis (pragmatics, linguistics of enunciation) as well as history and geography. On top of their existence as potent earthly landmarks and challenges for humans, the mountains have always been geographical objects in motion.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"119 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1862953","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42692116","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":"A world of images: tourism, gender and Hispanism in Georgiana Goddard King’s The Way to Saint James (1920)","authors":"Alba del Pozo García","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1818022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1818022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the intertwining of early tourism, gender and scientific discourses in The Way to Saint James (1920), written by the American Art History professor Georgiana Goddard King. With the sponsorship of the Hispanic Society, Goddard King travelled to Spain several times during the first years of the twentieth century. This article analyses the overlap between a scientific narrative that focuses on the history, art, and architecture of Spain, on the one hand, and the gendered point of view that anticipates post-modern debates on scholarly knowledge, on the other. Secondly the relationship between this gendered perspective and the emergence of the so-called “tourist gaze” reveals the anxieties of contemporary tourism in its search for images and authenticity, while re-enacting the objective and distanced position of the scientific observer.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"47 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1818022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42056758","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":"Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: the History of Travel Literature in Imperial China","authors":"J. Ward","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1794289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1794289","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese travel writing from the imperial period is an important genre of writing in the classical language that has attracted much attention within China over the last forty years, with a number of...","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"102 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1794289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49580446","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":"Henry J.-M. Levet: diplomatic travel poet","authors":"K. Olson","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1815936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1815936","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Henry J.-M. Levet’s poetry has been well-known in the Francophone realm for a century, and he is the subject of a recent major biography (Vitoux 2018, L’Express de Bénarès: A la Recherche d’Henry J.-M. Levet. Paris: Fayard). Although he died in 1906, his work (first published in 1921 by La Maison des Amis des Livres) has been in continuous print since 1943 at Gallimard. Levet’s work has been praised and compared to Rimbaud and Jules Laforgue by Valery Larbaud and Léon-Paul Fargue, among many others. This essay argues that Levet’s poems are wonderfully exotic, but that they have a more serious dimension in that they depict travel and the opportunities for diplomacy between cultures that travel affords. Levet, who was a diplomat in addition to a traveller, provides in his ten most famous poems a lesson on how to move between cultures.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"35 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1815936","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44165051","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":"The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist","authors":"Ben Stubbs","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1815357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1815357","url":null,"abstract":"In Randy Malamud’s evocatively titled travel exploration he establishes himself as an enthusiastic traveller who is compelled by his curiosity and academic awareness to reflect on what it is to be ...","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"104 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1815357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42063005","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":"Re-reading Maipina de la Barra: scientific observations in the first travel narrative by a Chilean woman","authors":"Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1818943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1818943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a re-reading of the Chilean Maipina de la Barra’s travel memoir Mis impresiones y mis vicisitudes en mi viaje a Europa, which was published in Buenos Aires in 1878. Whereas previous interpretations have read it as personal testimony and feminine revindication, this article shows how her memoir can also be read as field note observation and scientific divulgation. The theoretical framework is based on the history of science and knowledge and therefore offers a unique angle for studying the writing of a nineteenth-century woman who resided in a peripheral area of the world, far removed from the major centres of scientific advancement.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1818943","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49010861","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":"Constructing a “Better Britain” in British Columbia: the travelogues, poetry and literature of Hilda Glynn-Ward, 1886–1966","authors":"G. Thomson","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1812019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1812019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the writings of Hilda Glynn-Ward, a white British colonial woman who held a strong attachment for her adopted home of British Columbia, Canada in the early twentieth century. Her attachment to Canada’s Pacific province was so strong that she felt she had to defend it against the threat of non-Anglo immigrants, particularly Asians. Glynn-Ward’s travelogues, poetry, and literature were an overt racist political statement on how she wished to shape the future of British Columbia as a part of “Greater Britain.” Despite publishing success with her travel writing about British Columbia, her political agenda failed. After four decades of extreme racist political activism and marginal economic success she returned to the United Kingdom in 1958 and died in 1966. The article suggests that her desire to construct a “Better Britain” in British Columbia motivated her prolific but prejudiced writing career.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"62 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1812019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49045645","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 Scotland to Sāmoa: Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Polynesia","authors":"L. Graham","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1803598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1803598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the late nineteenth century, Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson (1829–1897) accompanied her son Robert Louis Stevenson on his voyage in the South Seas and eventually settled with him and his family in Sāmoa. Two volumes of the letters she addressed to her sister during this period were published posthumously: From Saranac to the Marquesas and beyond; […] 1887–88 (1903) and Letters from Samoa, 1891–1895 (1906). These epistolary travel accounts form part of the layered textual network created around Robert Louis Stevenson’s time in Polynesia. While reflecting the attitudes and beliefs of the Scottish woman far from home, Margaret Stevenson's accounts provide us with a more personal impression of the Pacific Islands. Like the rest of the household, Margaret Stevenson is on the whole a curious and well-intentioned participant in the cross-cultural dialogue in which she engages. Ideas of Scotland and Scottish selfhood are also discernible in her journal letters.","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"20 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1803598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49038409","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":"Fellow travellers and Soviet Russia’s guides in 1930s travel books by Antoni Słonimski, Robert Byron and Walter Citrine","authors":"G. Moroz","doi":"10.1080/13645145.2020.1812018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1812018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most foreign visitors who went to Soviet Russia in the 1930s were so-called “fellow travellers”: the left-wing intellectuals interested in and generally supportive of the “Soviet experiment”. Their standard way of seeing the country was through organised tours, on which they were given guides who served as interpreters and also as informers for the authorities. This article analyses and compares the ways in which such guides and fellow travellers are represented, and the narrative functions that they serve in three travel books, one Polish and two British, published during that decade. These are: Antoni Słonimski’s Moja podróż do Rosji [My Journey to Russia] (1932), Robert Byron’s First Russia, Then Tibet (1933), and Walter Citrine’s I Search for Truth in Russia (1936).","PeriodicalId":35037,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Travel Writing","volume":"24 1","pages":"88 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13645145.2020.1812018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42682020","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}