Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel

Book Overview

A collection of essays which focus on 20th-century travel writing. Though travel writing has sometimes been viewed as a second-rate literary form, the essays in this volume aim to reinvigorate an appreciation of the genre as a blend of self-scrutiny, social comment and intercultural exchange. The contributors to Temperamental Journeys address issues ranging from the special role of women travellers and the dangers of cultural chauvinism in a postcolonial world to the response of postmodern literary travellers exploring the same territory as previous writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314315
• ISBN13: 9780820314310
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.