The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing

Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor considering a specific aspect of travel writing – a recurrent motif, an organising principle or a literary form. All of the essays include a discussion of representative travel texts, to ensure that the volume as a whole represents a broad historical and geographical range of travel writing. Together, the 25 essays and the editors’ introduction offer a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism and lay the ground for future developments.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs Part One: Framing Travel The Scientific Traveller / Angela Byrne Nature Writing / Paul Smethurst Migrant Narratives / Aedín Ní Loingsigh The Expatriate Life / Lynn Mastellotto Travelling in Pairs / Kathryn N. Jones Footsteps / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Vertical Travel / Charles Forsdick Part Two: Modes of Writing Letters / Eve Tavor Bannet Diaries and Journals / Christina Laffin Guidance and Advice / Alasdair Pettinger Narrative / John Culbert Description / Benjamin Colbert Lectures / Tom F. Wright Part Three: Sensuous Geographies Seeing / Margaret Topping Hearing / Tim Youngs Touching / Sarah Jackson Tasting / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee Smelling / Clare Brant Part Four: Interactions Hospitality / Kevin J. James Foreign Exchange / David Murray Between Languages / Michael Cronin Animals / Elizabeth Leane Part Five: Paratexts Editorial Matters / Michael G. Brennan Maps / James R. Akerman Book and Print Technology / Innes Keighren Works Cited Index

Alasdair Pettinger is an independent scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published on travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His books include the anthology Always Elsewhere (1998) and Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 (2018). Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, 2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (edited with Nandini Das, 2019).