Tourists with typewriters : critical reflections on contemporary travel writing

Resource Information

The work Tourists with typewriters : critical reflections on contemporary travel writing represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Tourists with typewriters : critical reflections on contemporary travel writing

Title remainder

critical reflections on contemporary travel writing

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan

Creator

• Holland, Patrick, 1943-
• Holland, Patrick, 1943-

Contributor

• Huggan, Graham, 1958-
• Huggan, Graham, 1958-

Subject

• Travel in literature
• Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism
• Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
• Voyages and travels -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
• American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

As the first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in English after the Second World War. The book focuses in particular on contemporary travel writers such as Jan Morris, Peter Matthiessen, V.S. Naipaul, Barry Lopez, Mary Morris, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, and the late Bruce Chatwin. It examines some of the reasons for travel writing's enduring popularity and for its particular appeal to present-day readers, many of them also travelers. The book will appeal to general readers interested in a closer examination of travel writing and to academic readers in disciplines such as literary/cultural studies, geography, history, anthropology, and tourism studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography