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ABSTRACT This article theorises historical comment books and related travel-writing sources. It offers a conceptual framework for reading disparate sources produced by travellers and tourists during and as part of travel and visitation. An interdisciplinary framework is promoted, conjoining travel and tourism studies, medium theory, communication sensibilities, and anthropology of writing. By attuning to the practices, materialities, and mobilities that comment books generate and embody, this study details six analytical hypotheses. These hypotheses address the indexical value of comment books as on-site media, their institutional nature, the heterogeneous literacies, narratives, and chronotopes performed in and through them, and the texts’ addressivities. The article seeks to illuminate the richness, complexity, and significance of these sources, and of the travel practices they stimulate. More than records or capsules of historical voices and discourses, as travel-writing artefacts comment books are stimulating to “think with” about the historical, sociocultural, and political processes they index.
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Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts and to scholarly approaches to them. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for specific contexts of travel writing to be established and for the application of a range of scholarly and critical approaches. It welcomes contributions from within, between or across academic disciplines; from senior scholars and from those at the start of their careers. It also publishes original interviews with travel writers, special themed issues, and book reviews.
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