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Women, Travel Writing, and Truth (Routledge Research in Travel Writing) - Softcover

Book 10 of 20: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
 
9780367869649: Women, Travel Writing, and Truth (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367869640 ISBN 13: 9780367869649
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise.

Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

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About the Author

Clare Broome Saunders is a Research Fellow in English at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367869640
ISBN 13 
9780367869649
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
204
Editor
Saunders Clare Broome