Perspectives on Travel Writing

211 Pages·2004·4.717 MB·English

by  Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs

PERSPECTIVES ON TRAVEL WRITING
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Perspectives on Travel Writing
Edited by
Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs
Studies in European Cultural Transition
Volume 19
General Editors: Martin Stannard and Greg Walker
First published 2004 b y A s h g a t e P ublishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Perspectives on Travel Writing. – (Studies in European Cultural Transition)
1. Travel writing. 2. Traveler’s writings – History and criticism. I. Hooper,
Glenn, 1959– .
II. Youngs, Tim.
809.9’3355
US Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Perspectives on Travel Writing / edited by Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs.
p. cm. – (Studies in European Cultural Transition)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Travel writing. 2. Travel in literature. 3. Travelers’ writings, European. I.
Hooper, Glenn 1959– . II. Youngs, Tim. III. Series.
G151.P485 2003
208’.06691–dc21 2003056044
ISBN 9780754603665(hbk)
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
List of Illustrations ix
General Editors’ Preface x
1 Introduction 1
Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs
2 Defining Travel: On the Travel Book, Travel Writing and Terminology 13
Jan Borm
3 ‘As mannerly and civill as any of Europe’: Early Modern Travel
Writing and the Exploration of the English Self 27
Helga Quadflieg
4 ‘Not absolutely a native, nor entirely a stranger’: The Journeys of
Anne Grant 41
Betty Hagglund
5 The Saxon in Ireland: John Hervey Ashworth on the Emigrant Trail 55
Glenn Hooper
6 Animals as Figures of Otherness in Travel Narratives of Brittany,
1840–1895 71
Jean-Yves Le Disez
7 ‘The Silent Language of the Face’: The Perception of Indigenous
Difference in Travel Writing about the Caribbean 85
Peter Hulme
8 Night Train to Belo Horizonte: South American Travels 99
Erdmute Wenzel White
9 Between Gender and Genre: The Travels of Estella Canziani 121
Loredana Polezzi
10 Varieties of Nostalgia in Contemporary Travel Writing 139
Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan
11 Mediaeval Travel in Postcolonial Times: Amitav Ghosh’s
In an Antique Land 153
Padmini Mongia
12 Where Are We Going? Cross-border Approaches to Travel Writing 167
Tim Youngs
vi CONTENTS
Select Bibliography 181
Index 193
Notes on Contributors
Jan Borm teaches English at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-
Yvelines. He is co-editor (with Matthew Graves) of Bruce Chatwin’s posthumous
collection, Anatomy of Restlessness (London: Picador, 1997), and (with Jean-Yves
Le Disez) of Seuils et Traverses: Enjeux de l’écriture du voyage, 2 vols (Brest
and Versailles: Université de Bretagne Occidentale and Université de Versailles-
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 2002). He has published numerous essays on British
travel writing.
Helga Quadflieg has taught English Literature at the universities of Passau, Berlin,
and Würzburg, and is presently acting Professor at the Pädagogische Hochschule
Weingarten. She has published extensively on the short story, modern tourism, film,
and multi-culturalism, and is currently completing two projects: a study of Tudor
travel writing, and an introduction to the analysis of poetry.
Betty Hagglund is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She has published
essays on generic aspects of travel writing, imaginary voyages, travel writing and the
eighteenth-century periodical press and on a variety of eighteenth- and nineteenth-
century women travellers. She is currently editing the diaries of Mary and Martha
Russell, two young British women who were captured by the French Navy during
the Revolutionary Wars. She is Vice-President of the International Society for Travel
Writing and co-edits the Society’s newsletter, Snapshot Traveller.
Glenn Hooper is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Mary Immaculate
College, University of Limerick. He is editor of The Tourist’s Gaze: Travellers to
Ireland, 1800–2000 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001), and Harriet Martineau’s
Letters from Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2001), and co-editor of Irish and
Postcolonial Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), and Ireland in the Nineteenth
Century: Regional Identity (Dublin: Four Courts, 2000).
Jean-Yves Le Disez lectures (in Literature in English and Translation Studies)
at the University of Western Brittany, Brest, France. He is the author of Étrange
Bretagne (Rennes: P.U.R, 2002). He is also a translator, notably of travel writing
(Philip Glazebrook’s Journey to Kars, Lawrence Millman’s Last Places) and the
founder and editor of hopala!—débats de bretagne et d’ailleurs, a Breton cultural
magazine.
Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. His most recent
books are Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877–1998
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), the co-edited (with William Sherman)
‘The Tempest’ and Its Travels (London: Reaktion Books, 2000), and the co-
edited (with Tim Youngs) Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge:
viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Cambridge University Press, 2002). His current research relates to questions of
history and fiction in the Caribbean.
Erdmute Wenzel White has taught at the University of Hamburg, and is currently
an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Purdue University.
She has published widely on poetry, music and modern dance, and her recent book
is entitled The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet (Camden: Camden House,
1998).
Loredana Polezzi lectures in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick. Her
research work concentrates on the genre and history of travel writing, and she has
published on the subject in Italy and Britain. She is co-editor of Fuzzy Boundaries?
Reflections on Modern Languages and the Humanities (London: CILT, 2001), and
author of Translating Travel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).
Patrick Holland teaches theory, nineteenth-century studies, and travel writing at
the University of Guelph. With Graham Huggan, he is writing a study of travel
writing in the age of globalization, and is also working on a book about the cult
of Caravaggio.
Graham Huggan has a Chair in Postcolonialism at the University of Leeds.
Previous publications include Territorial Disputes (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1994), Peter Carey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), Tourists with
Typewriters, with Patrick Holland (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998),
and The Postcolonial Exotic (London: Routledge, 2001). He is currently working
with Patrick Holland on a ‘sequel’ to Tourists with Typewriters, and with Helen
Tiffin on a book about postcolonialism, animals and the environment.
Padmini Mongia teaches literature in English at Franklin & Marshall College,
USA. She has published on postcolonial and modern writing, and is editor of
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (London: Arnold, 1996). She is
currently working on a book entitled Indo Chic: Marketing English India.
Tim Youngs is Professor in English and Travel Studies at The Nottingham Trent
University. He is founding editor of the journal Studies in Travel Writing, the author
of Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850–1900 (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1994) and editor of Writing and Race (Harlow: Longman, 1997).
He is co-editor with Peter Hulme of The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
List of Illustrations
1. Protestant Missionary Settlement, Isle of Achill. Courtesy of the 62
National Library of Ireland.
2. Descendants of El Cobre Indians. From William S. Bryan, ed., 88
Our Islands and Their People as seen with Camera and Pencil,
2 vols (St Louis: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1899), vol. 1,
p. 239.
3. Lisbon in the Time of the Voyages of Discoveries. Engraving (1592). 101
4. Brazil. Early maritime map. From Martin Waldseemüller 103
(1470–1521), Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam
geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis …
(Saint-Dié, 1507).
5. Flying fish. Engraving, sixteenth century. From Carlos Malheiro Dias, 112
ed., História da colonização portuguesa do Brasil. Vol. II (Porto:
Litografia Nacional, 1923), p. 120.
6. Canindé (ara ararauna, Linnaeus, 1758). Albert Eckhout, Pássaros 119
do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1970). Original size: 90 × 90 cm. The
editors and author thank Agir Editôra Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
for permission to reproduce this image.
7. Jubilee: Invitation card, 25th anniversary celebrations of the 120
foundation of Pau Brasil. Private collection.
8. Estella Canziani, Return from the Mountains, watercolour and 130
gouache on paper laid down on board, 203 mm × 150 mm,
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (as published in Piedmont,
facing p. 6).
9. Estella Canziani, Gold Jewellery, pencil, watercolour and gouache on 134
blue paper, 126 mm × 177 mm, Birmingham Museums and Art
Gallery (as published in Through the Apennines and the Lands of the
Abruzzi, facing p. 100).