Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics.

An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.

Introduction, Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs
Defining travel: on the travel book, travel writing, and terminology, Jan Borm
'As mannerly and civill as any of Europe': early modern travel writing and the exploration of the English self, Helga Quadflieg
'Not absolutely a native, nor entirely a stranger': the Journeys of Anne Grant, Betty Hagglund
The Saxon in Ireland: John Hervey Ashworth on the emigrant trail, Glenn Hooper
Animals as figures of otherness in Victorian narratives of travel in Brittany, 1840-95, Jean-Yves Le Disez
'The silent language of the face': the perception of indigenous difference in travel writing about the Caribbean, Peter Hulme
Night train to Belo Horizonte: South American travels, Erdmute Wenzel White
Between gender and genre: the travels of Estella Canziani, Loredana Polezzi
Varieties of nostalgia in contemporary travel writing, Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan
Mediaeval travel in postcolonial times: Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, Padmini Mongia
Where are we going? Cross-border approaches to travel writing, Tim Youngs
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Index.