Journal articles: 'British Travel Literature'

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S. Dyakonova, Elena. "Travel in British fantasy (J.R. Tolkien, T. Pratchett)." Journal of Language and Literature 5, no. 3 (August 30, 2014): 183–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2014/5-3/32.

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Muse, Amy. "British women’s travel to Greece, 1840–1914: travels in the palimpsest." Studies in Travel Writing 20, no. 4 (October 2016): 421–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2016.1276865.

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Buck, Pamela. "Recovering British Romantic Women Travel Writers." European Romantic Review 31, no. 3 (May 3, 2020): 394–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2020.1747712.

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Fisher, Michael H. "European Travel Literature Beyond British India's Nineteenth-Century Western Frontier." Itinerario 29, no. 1 (March 2005): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300021719.

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Mulvey, Christopher. "Travel Literature: The “Medland” Trope in the British Holiday Brochure." Journal of Popular Culture 29, no. 4 (March 1996): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1996.99687687.x.

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Mulligan, Maureen. "The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 5–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0017.

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Abstract This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel - by car, and by horse - also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).

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Watkinson, Caroline. "English Convents in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 219–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001339.

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‘A Nun’s dress is a very becoming one’, wrote Cornelius Cayley in 1772. Similarly, Philip Thicknesse, witnessing the clothing ceremony at the English Augustinian convent in Paris, observed that the nun’s dress was ‘quite white, and no ways unbecoming … [it] did not render her in my eyes, a whit less proper for the affections of the world’. This tendency to objectify nuns by focusing on the mysterious and sexualized aspects of conventual life was a key feature of eighteenth-century British culture. Novels, poems and polemic dwelt on the theme of the forced vocation, culminating in the dramatic portrayals of immured nuns in the Gothic novels of the 1790s. The convent was portrayed as inherently despotic, its unnatural hierarchy and silent culture directly opposed to the sociability which, in Enlightenment thought, defined a civilized society. This despotic climate was one aspect of a culture of tyranny and constraint, which rendered nuns either innocent and victimized or complicit and immoral. Historians have noted that these stereotypes were remarkably similar to those applied to the Orient and have thus extended Said’s notion of ‘otherness’ - the self-affirmation of a dominant culture as a norm from which other cultures deviate – to apply not merely to oriental cultures but to those aspects of European culture deemed exotic. In so doing, they have challenged the notion that travel writing was an exact record of social experience and have initiated a more nuanced understanding of textual convention and authorial experience. For historians of eighteenth-century Britain this has led to an examination of the construction of anti-Catholicism within travel literature and its use as an ideology around which the Protestant nation could unite. Thus, Jeremy Black has noted that anti-Catholicism remained the ‘prime ideological stance in Britain’ and has claimed that encounters with Catholicism by British travellers in France ‘excited fear or unease … and, at times, humour or ridicule’. Likewise, Bryan Dolan and Christopher Hibbert have seen encounters with continental convents culminating in negative descriptions of rituals, relics and enclosed space.

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Christie, Clive J. "British Literary Travellers in Southeast Asia in an Era of Colonial Retreat." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 4 (October 1994): 673–737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0001252x.

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Some write because they travel, and some travel because they write. A large number of progessional writers, not just travel-writers, have derived inspiration from travel: equally, a large number of travellers, who are not professional writers, have nevertheless often felt compelled to encapsulate their experience in literary form. It is the aim of this paper to survey such British travel literature relating to Southeast Asia during the period of massive transformation dating approximately from the ‘20S to the ’ 50S of this century. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but representative of the major landmarks of that literature along with some lesser-known works of particular interest.

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Guelke, Jeanne Kay, and Karen Morin. "Gender, nature, empire: women naturalists in nineteenth century British travel literature." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26, no. 3 (September 2001): 306–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00024.

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Quintana, Ángel Gurría. "TRAVELLING THROUGH DISCOURSE, DISCOURSING ON TRAVEL: RECENT WRITING ON TRAVEL LITERATURE AND BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN MEXICO." Studies in Travel Writing 5, no. 1 (January 2001): 172–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2001.9634916.

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Haugen, Marius Warholm. "Traduire le Voyage comme acte politique." Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 55, no. 2 (August 7, 2019): 191–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.17016.hau.

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Abstract This article studies the discourse in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French periodical press on the topic of translations of travel writing. It reveals that travel reviews were arenas for discussing the political and ideological value of translating travelogues into French, notably from English. In the context of the Franco-British conflicts at the turn of the century, the French press perceived translations of British travel writing as potential patriotic tools that allowed different ways of countering or subverting British global influence. Paratextual elements of translations, the translator’s prefaces and notes, appeared to be particularly important in this respect. By analysing the periodical discourse on travel book translations, the article shows how travel writing was constructed as a politically invested genre.

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Lipski, Jakub. "Travellers, Connoisseurs, and Britons: Art Commentaries and National Discourse in the Travel Writings of Daniel Defoe and Tobias Smollett." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 365–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0014.

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Abstract This article seeks to explore the interrelationship of two facets characterising eighteenth-century travel writing – art commentaries and national discourse. It is demonstrated that one of the reasons behind the travellers’ repetitious attempts to fashion themselves as connoisseurs was a need to re-affirm their national identity. To this end it offers an analysis of two travel texts coming from two different political moments – Daniel Defoe’s A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1726), constituting an attempt to read the British as a “great” and prosperous nation after the union of 1707, and Tobias Smollett’s idiosyncratic Travels through France and Italy (1766), shedding light on the British attitude towards the South in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War and at the outset of the cult of feeling in Britain. It will also be argued that the numerous art commentaries throughout the narratives had a political agenda and supported the national discourse underpinning the texts.

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Talbot, Ann. "Locke's Travel Books." Locke Studies 7 (December 31, 2007): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/ls.2007.1059.

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Peter Martyr, papal legate to the court of Spain and learned humanist, solemnly informed his readers that children were turned into frogs on one of the newly discovered Caribbean islands. Columbus thought his ship was caught in the powerful current of one of the rivers that flowed out of Eden, when he encountered the mouth of the Orinoco. Amerigo Vespucci invented an entire voyage so that he could claim priority in the discovery of the American continent. If we were to leaf through the travel books that the philosopher John Locke had on his shelves we would find these and even stranger stories of shape-shifting enchanters, lakes of gold, Amazon warrior women, societies where equality and liberty reigned and property was held in common, as well as sophisticated, well-organized societies where the educated class were all materialists and atheists. Travel literature seems a most unsuitable body of material for John Locke, the father of British empiricism, to study, but study it he did.

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Smith, Johanna M., Karen R. Lawrence, and Maria H. Frawley. "Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15, no. 1 (1996): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463980.

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MacKenzie, John M. "Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts, by Leila Koivunen." Studies in Travel Writing 14, no. 3 (September 2010): 322–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2010.501213.

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Amstutz, Andrew. "A New Shahrazad." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40, no. 2 (August 1, 2020): 372–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-8524292.

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Abstract In 1945, Mahmooda Rizvia, a prominent Urdu author from Sindh, published a travel account of her journey across the Arabian Sea from British India to Iraq during World War II. In her travel account, Rizvia conceptualized the declining British Empire as a dynamic space for Muslim renewal that connected India to the Middle East. Moreover, she fashioned a singular autobiographical persona as an Urdu literary pioneer and woman traveler in the Muslim lands of the British Empire. In her writings, Rizvia focused on her distinctive observations of the ocean, the history of the Ottoman Empire, and her home province of Sindh's location as a historical nexus between South Asia and the Middle East. In contrast to the expectations of modesty and de-emphasis on the self in many Muslim women's autobiographical narratives in the colonial era, Rizvia fashioned a pious, yet unapologetically self-promotional, autobiographical persona. In conversation with recent scholarship on Muslim cosmopolitanism, women's autobiographical writing, and travel literature, this article points to the development of an influential project of Muslim cosmopolitanism in late colonial Sindh that blurred the lines between British imperialism, pan-Islamic ambitions, and nationalism during the closing days of World War II.

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Fruzińska, Justyna. "Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia." Text Matters, no. 10 (November 24, 2020): 408–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.22.

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Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose aim was to buy black slaves, educate them, and then liberate them. Even though the enterprise turned out to be a failure, the author continued to fight for the cause of black emancipation. My paper examines Wright’s portrayal of America in Views, which, compared to most other early 19th-century British travel accounts, is surprisingly enthusiastic. Wright idealizes the young republic, seeing it as a perfect embodiment of her ideals. I argue that Wright’s vision of the young republic is utopian, and it prevents her from seeing any flaws in the American system. This is especially pronounced in the case of the central problem posed by British travelogues of the era, slavery, which troubles her not so much on moral grounds, but as a blemish on the character of the country of freedom and equality.

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Wynne-Davies, Marion, and Karen R. Lawrence. "Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition." Modern Language Review 91, no. 4 (October 1996): 978. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3733547.

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Boer, Nienke. "Exploring British India: South African prisoners of war as imperial travel writers, 1899–1902." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (November 30, 2017): 429–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417737594.

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During the second South African War (1899–1902), also known as the Anglo-Boer War, the British War Office supervised the transportation of approximately 24,000 South African prisoners of war to Bermuda, St. Helena, and British India. Examining previously unstudied memoirs published immediately following the war by war prisoners held in camps in India and Ceylon, I argue that these texts read not, as one would expect, as prison or war writing, but as travel literature. These authors do not see a conflict between enjoying the benefits of empire abroad while fighting an anti-imperial war at home. The descriptions of landscapes and events in these memoirs suggest a cultural imaginary built on travelling and cultural exchange, as opposed to the insular and nativist Afrikaner nationalism that would follow empire. This article thus contributes to a larger project of examining the precursors of postcolonial nationalism, as well as historical and imaginative links between imperial peripheries.

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Thompson, Victoria E. "Foreign bodies: British travel to Paris and the troubled national self, 1789–1830." Studies in Travel Writing 15, no. 3 (September 2011): 243–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2011.595928.

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Murray, Alex. "“Through variously tinted cosmopolitan glasses”: Vernon Lee’s travel writing of the British Isles." Studies in Travel Writing 23, no. 4 (October 2, 2019): 342–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1753986.

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Peh, Li Qi. "Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature by Anne M. Thell." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 3 (March 14, 2019): 604–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.31.3.604.

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Maioli, Roger. "Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature by Anne M. Thell." Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 1 (2020): 239–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0107.

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Newbould, M.-C. "Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature by Anne M. Thell." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (2019): 110–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2019.0020.

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Wills, David. "Reinventing Paradise: the Greek Crisis and contemporary British travel narratives." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39, no. 2 (2015): 286–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307013100015391.

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In the second half of the twentieth century Greece became a subject for travel writers in search of a European ‘Paradise’. But ‘Hell was also to be found in Greece, often in the form of frustrations over allegedly ‘non-European’ standards of living, facilities, and attitudes. A sample of travel narratives published between 2006 and 2014 suggests the extent to which, in the light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, twenty-first-century writers are abandoning these formerly conventional themes. There is now the potential for the realignment of narratives, with Greece becoming the Hell, rather than the Heaven, of Europe.

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Bosangit, Carmela, Juline Dulnuan, and Miguela Mena. "Using travel blogs to examine the postconsumption behavior of tourists." Journal of Vacation Marketing 18, no. 3 (July 2012): 207–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356766712449367.

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This study proposes that travel blogging has become part of tourist practices, particularly in the postconsumption stage. Travel blogs serve as platforms where tourists can remember, evaluate, store, and enrich their travel experiences. Extant literature has recognized travel blogs as a valuable source of information on tourists’ activities, perceptions of destinations, and word-of-mouth communication. This study suggests that an examination of travel blogs, looking at how tourists reconstruct their travel experiences and the actions behind the blogging, can provide a deeper understanding of the postconsumption behavior of tourists. Recent tourist experience models have emphasized that the postconsumption stage of a travel experience extends beyond the evaluation of the experience by the tourist. In this study, the discourse analysis of travel blogs by 19 British long-haul and multiple-destination travelers reveals three common actions behind travel blogging: representing places, acts of self-presentation, identity construction, and “othering.” The analysis shows bloggers employing linguistic techniques and self-presentation strategies in their travel narratives. Implications of the key findings for marketing strategies and destination image are discussed.

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BROWN, MATTHEW. "Richard Vowell's Not-So-Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Adventure in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America." Journal of Latin American Studies 38, no. 1 (February 2006): 95–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x05000301.

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Richard Vowell was a British mercenary who served in the Wars of Independence in Hispanic America. A study of his writings offers a new perspective from which to reconsider the influential arguments of the section of Mary Louise Pratt's Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (London and New York, 1992) that deals with European travel in the region in the period. The analysis centres on the ways in which Vowell depicted Hispanic American masculinities, indigenous peoples, collective identities and the diverse groups that made up society during the wars of independence. Vowell's writings suggest that further sources might be read against the traditional canon of commercial travel literature generally used by historians for the period 1800–1850.

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Dutton, Jacqueline. "Imperial ice? The influence of Empire on contemporary French and British Antarctic travel writing." Studies in Travel Writing 13, no. 4 (December 2009): 369–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645140903301859.

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Gesualdi-Fecteau, Dalia, Delphine Nakache, and Laurence Matte Guilmain. "Travel Time as Work Time? Nature and Scope of Canadian Labor Law’s Protections for Mobile Workers." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 29, no. 3 (August 12, 2019): 349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1048291119867750.

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The spectrum of employment-related geographical mobility ranges from hours-long daily commutes to journeys that take workers away from home for an extended period of time. Although distance and travel conditions vary, there is a strong consensus within existing literature that mobility has physical, psychological, and social repercussions. However, is time spent traveling considered as working time? This question is crucial as it dictates whether or not workers can effectively access different sets of labor rights. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, contributing to a deeper understanding of travel time by offering a more sustained and complex representation of the various employment-related travel schemes. Second, assessing the circumstances under which travel time counts as work time with regard to the employment standards legislation in force in four Canadian provinces: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Colombia.

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길혜령. "Science, Commerce, and Imperial Expansion in British Travel Literature: Hugh Clifford’s and Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction." Journal of English Language and Literature 57, no. 6 (December 2011): 1151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15794/jell.2011.57.6.012.

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Pulkkinen, Oili. "Russia and Euro-Centric Geography During the British Enlightenment." Transcultural Studies 14, no. 2 (December 12, 2018): 150–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23751606-01402003.

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In this article, I shall examine the European part of the Russian Empire, Russian culture and Russians in eighteenth century handbooks of geography when “the Newtonian turn” took place in that discipline. Thanks to travel literature and history writing, we are used to thinking of the Russians as representing “otherness” in Europe. Still, in handbooks of geography, Russia was the gate between Asia and Europe. This article will explicate the stereotype(s) of the British characterisations of the Russian national character and the European part of the Russian Empire (excluding ethnic minorities in Russia), in order to reconstruct the idea of Russia in the British (and Irish) geography books.

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GASCOIGNE, JOHN. "THE EXPANDING HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM." Historical Journal 49, no. 2 (June 2006): 577–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x06005346.

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This historiographical review considers recent developments in the writing of imperial history, paying particular attention to the growing emphasis on cultural history. Such an emphasis reflects a close engagement with issues such as the formation of national identity in an imperial context and the ways in which systems of knowledge – including religion, science, and notions of gender – were linked with structures of empire. The extent to which cultural history intersects with concerns of literary scholars and anthropologists – in its engagement with travel literature, for example – further indicates the increasingly interdisciplinary character of imperial history. In conclusion, the review raises the issue of the limits, as well as the strengths, that flow from the expanding scope of cultural history, as well as offering suggestions as to why imperial history is likely to become increasingly important in a globalized world.

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Fowler, Corinne. "‘Replete With Danger’: The Legacy of British Travel Narratives to News Media Coverage of Afghanistan." Studies in Travel Writing 11, no. 2 (September 2007): 155–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2007.9634826.

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Hesse, Isabelle. "Humouring the conflict: Israel and Palestine in twenty-first century British and German travel writing." Studies in Travel Writing 22, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2018.1512941.

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Mann, Paisley. "A Paris of Their Own: Guidebooks for Anglo-American Female Travellers and the Rewriting of Mainstream Travel Culture." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 4 (July 2, 2020): 553–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz060.

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Abstract Both E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (1908) and Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855–1857) satirize British guidebook users, depicting them as mindless followers rather than as individual explorers of foreign landscapes. Series by John Murray and Baedeker dominated the landscape of Victorian travel, and scholars have pointed out that while mainstream guidebooks made foreign tourism more accessible for the middle class, they also presented travel as a heavily prescriptive and systematic endeavour, one that often sheltered British travellers from an encounter with foreignness. This article extends our understanding of the Victorian guidebook’s legacy by examining three Anglo-American guidebooks for women travelling to Paris – Mary Abbot’s A Woman’s Paris (1900), Elizabeth Otis Williams’ Sojourning, Shopping, and Studying in Paris (1907), and Alice M. Ivimy’s A Woman’s Guide to Paris (1909). It suggests that these fin-de-siècle women’s guidebooks emerged as a critique both of mainstream guidebooks’ prescriptive approach to foreign travel and of the narrow interests to which they catered. This article shows how, in actively resisting the genre’s emphasis on uniformity and expediency, guidebooks for women instead privileged spontaneous discovery, personal interest, and an encounter with the Parisian culture and landscape. In doing so, it seeks to reformulate our understanding of women’s travel narratives and of the cultural legacy of Victorian guidebooks.

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Burroughs, Robert. ":Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902." Journal of Victorian Culture 10, no. 2 (October 2005): 319–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2005.10.2.319.

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Fabricant, Carole. "Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition. Karen R. Lawrence." Modern Philology 95, no. 2 (November 1997): 265–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/392485.

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Jensz, Felicity. "The Publication and Reception of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland." Library 13, no. 4 (December 1, 2012): 457–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/13.4.457.

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Abstract Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, religious books proportionally lost popularity while travel books became more popular. This paper examines a hybrid of these two genres, Protestant missionary monographs, through a detailed analysis of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland, including the rationale behind publishing the book; its translation from German into English; how it was used as a political tool to influence British foreign policy; and how the book was received by British literary critics and scientists. This analysis demonstrates how authorial intentions that the religious and secular components of Protestant Missionary literature be considered as parts of a whole produced confusion and tension in the secular reception of such books.

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Hodgkinsoi, Sarah, and Nick Tilley. "Travel-to-Crime: Homing in on the Victim." International Review of Victimology 14, no. 3 (September 2007): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026975800701400301.

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Environmental criminology focuses on the intersection in time and place of the offender and victim. Patterns of crime are generally explained in terms of the routine activities of the offender. His or her travel to crime distances are short and crimes are committed within the offender's ‘awareness space’. It has generally been theorised that victims also have short journeys to crime, associated with their routine behaviour. This review, however, suggests that occupancy of ‘unawareness space’, where people are away from familiar surroundings, may confer heightened risk. This is supported in research in the special case of crime and tourism, though other travelling victim patterns have been largely ignored. This paper postulates that crime risk increases at the intersection of offender awareness and victim unawareness spaces. The 2002–3 British Crime Survey provides some suggestive evidence on this. Its analysis reveals that 26.9% of self-reported victimisation occurs more than 15 minutes away from the victim's home. For personal theft crimes over 70% of the victims were outside their immediate locality, suggesting a stronger link between victim mobility and certain types of offence. This finding is discussed in light of the literature reviewed and some implications for crime prevention are considered.

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Fitzgerald, T. "Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan. By Corinne Fowler." Literature and Theology 23, no. 1 (September 10, 2008): 108–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn055.

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Wisnicki. "Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts, by Leila Koivunen." Victorian Studies 52, no. 4 (2010): 673. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.2010.52.4.673.

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Mulholland, James. "Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 2 (March 2020): 272–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.272.

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This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its colonies that has been the prevailing emphasis of literary criticism about empire. I focus on the eighteenth century's overlooked military men and lowlevel colonial administrators who wrote newspaper verse, travel poetry, and plays. I place their compositions in an institutional chronicle defined by the “cultural company‐state,” the British East India Company, which patronized and censored Anglo- India's multilingual reading publics. In the process of arguing for Anglo‐Indian literature as a local and regional creation, I consider the how the terms British and anglophone should function in literary studies of colonialism organized not by hybridity or creolization but by geographic relations of distinction. (JM)

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Hauthal, Janine. "Rewriting ‘white’ genres in search of Afro-European identities." English Text Construction 10, no. 1 (June 15, 2017): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.10.1.03hau.

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Presuming that both travel and crime fiction can be described as traditionally ‘white’ genres, this article investigates how contemporary Black British authors appropriate these genres. Focusing on Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself and Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists, the article examines how the two novels redeem and suspend the traditional racial and national coding of travel writing and crime fiction by rehabilitating black mixed-race characters. In both novels, moreover, the rethinking of traditional popular genres coincides with, and is partly enabled by, a transnational shift in focus from Britain to Europe. A closer look at the novels’ respective endings, finally, reveals how each conceptualises the relationship between Britain and Europe differently, and how this difference can be explained by the impact of genre.

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Piliavsky, Anastasia. "The “Criminal Tribe” in India before the British." Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no. 2 (March 20, 2015): 323–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417515000055.

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AbstractThis paper challenges the broad consensus in current historiography that holds the Indian stereotype of criminal tribe to be a myth of colonial making. Drawing on a selection of precolonial descriptions of robber castes—ancient legal texts and folktales; Jain, Buddhist and Brahmanic narratives; Mughal sources; and Early Modern European travel accounts—I show that the idea of castes of congenital robbers was not a British import, but instead a label of much older vintage on the subcontinent. Enjoying pride of place in the postcolonial critics' pageant of “colonial stereotypes,” the case of criminal tribes is representative and it bears on broader questions about colonial knowledge and its relation to power. The study contributes to the literature that challenges the still widespread tendency to view colonial social categories, and indeed the bulk of colonial knowledge, as the imaginative residue of imperial politics. I argue that while colonialusesof the idea of a criminal tribe comprises a lurid history of violence against communities branded as born criminals in British law, the stereotype itself has indigenous roots. The case is representative and it bears on larger problems of method and analysis in “post-Orientalist” historiography.

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Thompson, Carl. "Women wanderers and the writing of mobility, 1784–1814; Minds in motion: imagining empiricism in eighteenth-century British travel literature." Studies in Travel Writing 22, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 226–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2018.1515707.

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Gergely, Aletta. "Trópusi veszélyek Indiában a 19. századi magyar utazási útleírásokban." Belvedere Meridionale 31, no. 2 (2019): 136–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/belv.2019.2.8.

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This study investigates the tropical dangers in India in the late 19th and early 20th century through the Hungarian travel literature. The first part of the study examines the evolution of public health and the beginnings of the tropical medicine in India. The second part includes questions about madness and normal behaviour and I wrote about the lunatic asylum as well. The next section is about epidemic diseases like leprosy, malaria, cholera and plague. Tivadar Duka, M. D. and Ferenc Gáspár M. D. published articles about Colonial epidemics and public health. In order to control epidemics, special officers, committees, and commissioners were appointed by the British. Snake attacks also took their victims, so the British Government had to find a solution for the problem. In the last chapter I wrote about the use of psychoactive substances in India, like opium or cannabis.

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Heng, Sharon, Brett Hughes, Michael Hibbert, Mustafa Khasraw, and Zarnie Lwin. "Traveling With Cancer: A Guide for Oncologists in the Modern World." Journal of Global Oncology, no. 5 (December 2019): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.19.00029.

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PURPOSE Travel for patients with cancer has become more achievable because of gains in quality of life and overall survival. The risk assessment of these patients is complex, and there is a paucity of data to which clinicians can refer. We present the challenges of traveling with cancer and a review of the literature. METHODS A review using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines was performed. A search using the terms ”cancer,” “advanced cancer,” ”metastases,” “brain edema,” “lymphoedema,” “pneumothorax,” ”pleural effusion,” “pericardial effusion,” pneumonitis,” “hypoxia,” “end-of-life,” and “shunt,” combined with “flying” and “air travel,” was conducted. The PubMed and Cochrane databases were searched for English-language studies up to December 2018. Studies, case reports, or guidelines referring to travel in the context of adult patients with malignancies were included. A total of 745 published articles were identified; 16 studies were included. An inclusive approach to data extraction was used. RESULTS There were no specific criteria to deem a patient with cancer fit to travel. Neurologic, respiratory, and cardiac implications, and time from recent surgery or procedure need to be considered There was a lack of high-quality studies to inform decisions, but the British Thoracic Society and Aerospace Medical Association Medical Guidelines included recommendations for fitness to fly for patients with cancer. CONCLUSION In the absence of large prospective studies, individual fitness to travel should be assessed on a case-by-case basis, bearing in mind that maximizing a patient’s ability to safely travel is an important goal for many individuals with cancer.

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Gholi, Ahmad, and Masoud Ahmadi Mosaabad. "Image of Oriental Turkmen Female Travelees in the Nineteenth Century Western Travel Writing." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.3p.43.

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One of crucial issues which Western travel writers in their journeys to the Orient specifically in the height of colonialism in the nineteenth has addressed is Oriental women. Entrapped and conditioned by their cultural baggage and operating on the basis of Orientalist discourse, they have mostly presented a reductive image of their Oriental female travelees as exotic, seductive, sensual, secluded, and suppressed, in lieu of entering into a cultural dialogue and painting their picture sympathetically and respectfully. To convey their lasciviousness, they have expatiated on Oriental harems and to display their oppression foregrounded their veil and ill-treatment by their allegedly insensitive and callus menfolks. In the same period in the context of the Great Game the politically oriented Western travel writers in particular the British ones set out on a voyage to Central Asia where they encountered ethnic Turkmen. Besides gathering intelligence, the travel writers devoted considerable pages to their Turkmen female travelees as well. But their images in these travel books have not been subject to rigorous scholarly scrutiny. In this regard, the current articles in two sections seeks to redress this neglect by shedding light on how these travel writers portrayed their Turkmen female travelees in seemingly unorientalist fashion in the first part and how explicitly in Orientalist tradition in the second part.

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Heimlich, Timothy. "Romantic Wales and the Imperial Picturesque." Modern Language Quarterly 81, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 169–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8151559.

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Abstract This essay argues that the aesthetic category named the picturesque was first systematized in a Welsh colonial context and that picturesque looking always reflects, to some degree, its initially imperialist function. While the picturesque rapidly acceded to a preeminent place in British travel and landscape writing, its rise was contested by Welsh and working-class writers like the antiquarian poet Richard Llwyd (1752–1835). By conspicuously failing to impose picturesque features on a carefully historicized landscape, Llwyd’s poem Beaumaris Bay (1800) lays bare the picturesque’s antihistorical drive to eradicate local difference. Renewed critical attention to early attempts to establish an antipicturesque aesthetic may uncover important precursors to present-day postcolonial and transnational theory, precursors that can enrich the ongoing global turn in literary history.

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Rosand, David. "Exhibition Review: The Genius of Venice." Renaissance Quarterly 38, no. 2 (1985): 290–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2861666.

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The Genius of Venice 1500-1600,the grand exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 25, 1983, to March 11, 1984, transformed the London season, as one brochure announced, into “A Venetian Winter.” Notwithstanding the strong competition of the British Museum's exhibition of Raphael drawings, all London seemed filled with enthusiasm for the Queen of the Adriatic, an enthusiasm that manifested itself on every level of culture consumption and tourism: from gondolier shirts, carnival masks, and tinsof baicolito concerts of Venetian music, programs of films set in the lagoon, and public lecture series on topics such as “Venice: Art and Culture” and “Venice and the Victorians“; and, not least important in setting the tone of the occasion, special travel packages guaranteed the presence of large numbers of live Venetians in the British capital (the show was sponsored by the Sea Containers Group and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Limited).

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