Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age

By: Micallef, Roberta

Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to make an intervention in the ongoing multilayered and vibrant field of travel studies with a global focus on travelers and their writing. The subject matter in this volume ranges from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and includes East Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and South Asian travelers voyaging around the globe. The essays by a group of scholars who have been in a sustained conversation illuminate a set of interconnected cultural webs and global cultural flows that go far beyond the East-West binary that has dominated the field of travel literature for so long. The contributors to the volume probe the preconceptions that shape how the travelers perceive their voyage and the places they visit; the journey's effect on their self-perception and their notions of others; their stylistic decisions about how to represent their experiences as travelers; and the distinctly modern component: their encounters with global inequalities and the ever-present tensions between travel and tourism. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984471
• ISBN13: 9780674984479
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Ilex Project
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"