Travel literature Summary

In the following essay, Johnson uses three texts to juxtapose literary traditions surrounding travel narratives originating in the Americas. The phoneme, the akoumenon, is the phenomenon of the labyri... Read more

In the following essay, Sharp provides a critical appraisal of Peter Mayle's popular memoirs about his life in Provence. Recently in the West there has been much lamenting of the demise of cult... Read more

In the following essay, Lyons places the treatment of cannibalism in travel narratives within a historical perspective, and traces its contemporary significance in the work of Paul Theroux. The Oceani... Read more

In the following essay, Plevin examines the complexities faced by women travel writers, outlining how these challenges tend to shape their journeys as well as their writing. Gazing out over a “... Read more

In the following essays, Batten asserts that the great popularity of travel narratives in the eighteenth-century was due to their blending of imaginative literary content with descriptive information ... Read more

In the following essay, Digby examines Munshi Isma'il's New History, one of the earliest travel narratives written by an Indian, describing his voyage to and experiences in England. Acco... Read more

In the following essay, Fisher examines The Travels of Dean Mahomet, maintaining that it reflects the author's place in the colonial process. [W]e have never been as aware as we are now of how ... Read more

In the following essay, Bufalini argues that by the late eighteenth century, travel narratives no longer tried to combine literary experience with scientific inquiry as they had earlier in the century... Read more

In the following essay, Wiltshire argues that Samuel Johnson had conflicting opinions about the importance of travel. Wiltshire notes that Johnson’s insistence that the universality of human na... Read more

In the following excerpt, Coleman discusses two late eighteenth-century travel narratives written by British women, Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone and Mary Ann Parker�... Read more

In the following essay, Orr argues that eighteenth-century Scottish travel writers often compelled British women to accept maternal roles by exaggerating the degradation of those who practiced infanti... Read more