Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2243039
Efterpi Mitsi
ABSTRACT Dilys Powell, one of the most famous British film critics of the mid-twentieth century, recounted her travels in Greece in several books, fusing autobiography, history, and travel writing. In her postwar travelogue, An Affair of the Heart, Powell presents her wanderings and hotel stays in Greece in 1945, 1953, and 1954, during a period of civil conflict and its devastating aftermath. From the officer’s hotel in Salonika to the Fair Helen Inn at Mycenae in 1945, after the liberation and on the eve of the Civil War, Powell views Greece through the imagery of ruins: the ruins in the archaeological excavations of her husband Humfry Payne, who died in Greece in 1936, but also the physical rubbles and shattered lives of war-torn Greece. Revisiting the country after the Civil War, Powell turns her travels into a story about continuity and destruction, memory and forgetting, trauma and healing.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2240531
Joanna Kruczkowska
ABSTRACT This comparative article seeks to define the extent to which Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell’s Moon Country (1996), whose subtitle claims to be “further reports from Iceland”, can be examined as a footsteps travel narrative to Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden’s Letters from Iceland (1937). By focusing on the issues of literary heritage, authorship, authenticity, and photography, it analyses mainly formal affinities between the two underappreciated travelogues, which share a tendency towards fragmentation and identity games, but exhibit quite different approaches to the theme of their travel. The article also seeks to restore some balance to the biased perception of their co-authorship, emphasising the achievement of Armitage and MacNeice in these particular Icelandic expeditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2222917
Linda Gruen
ABSTRACT This article explores how Mexican politician, Lorenzo de Zavala, engaged with issues of masculinity and nation in his 1834 travelogue, Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de América (Journey to the United States of North America). The first published Mexican travelogue of the United States, this understudied text illuminates the post-independence period in which Latin American intellectuals imagined a hemispheric republican future originating in the Americas. This travelogue engaged with debates about nation-building and the role of male citizens. By conceptualising androcentrism as a symbolic marker, Zavala’s interpretation of the U.S. man informed his notion of an idealised citizenry. This notion was racialized and excluded subaltern populations. Additionally, this text can be interpreted as a precursor to twentieth-century valorisations of multi-ethnic identity discourses. Zavala imagined the emergence of a borderlands population that combined the characteristics of both countries’ citizenries. This travelogue provides greater meaning by contributing to the ongoing, ambivalent textual relationship between Mexico and the United States.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2261635
David Finbar Brett
ABSTRACT The Travel section of a newspaper is composed of texts which purport to at least partly comply with the ethical value of journalistic objectivity, yet the border between this type of writing and the overtly promotional texts produced in the tourism sector is somewhat blurred. This paper compares linguistic features in samples of text from Tourist Board websites and the Travel section and nine other sections of The Guardian to determine whether Travel Journalism can be categorised as a type of journalism, or whether it bears distinct similarities to Tourism Discourse. The results suggest that Travel Journalism differs from the other newspaper sections and is quite similar to the Language of Tourism on the basis of some features. However, in relation to others, it is decidedly different, thereby suggesting that Travel Journalism can be cleared of the allegation of being unduly influenced by the texts produced by the tourism industry.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2205165
N. Butt
ABSTRACT This paper sets out to examine cultural encounters between India and England in an 1885 Bengali travelogue Englandey Bangamahila [A Bengali Lady in England] by Krishnabhabini Das, who travelled to England with her husband at a time when the idea and practice of travelling women was either inconceivable or deemed a taboo in India. The travelogue under study deals with Das's several journeys in England and provides an intriguing account of her understanding of colonial English culture. My prime objective is to underline how Das presents England from the perspective of a female, marginal subject. To this end, I elaborate on foregrounded tensions between London and Calcutta, and Englishwomen and Hindu women as they are represented through the reversed gaze. By highlighting the cross-border connections in the travelogue as a transnational narrative, I aim to shed light on the connective histories of India and England in the long nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2218048
R. Jarvis
ABSTRACT Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteenth century onwards. With a focus on three narratives of failed quests, this essay traces the broad developmental arc of humour in travel writing over two hundred years. The narrative of John Ross’s Arctic expedition exemplifies the way in which colonial-era writing invites readers to share a comic superiority over simple-minded indigenes. From the mid-twentieth century, Eric Newby’s work illustrates a trend towards self-irony and self-mockery whereby humour becomes a versatile expression of the rhetoric of anti-conquest. Finally, Bill Bryson’s books typify the increasing reliance in contemporary writing on incongruities of form and content and other strategies consistent with the development of a post-touristic travel stance.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2197257
Mojtaba Ebrahimian
ABSTRACT In the concluding decades of the eighteenth century, as European power was ascending in Asia, Indians and Iranians travelled to Europe and wrote about European society, culture, and politics. This article analyses the earliest Persian travelogues of England by an Indian and an Iranian to show how the Indo-Iranian travellers comprehended European civilisation and envisaged their own status vis-à-vis Europeans. By analysing Shigarfnamah-yi Wilayat (1785) by Mirza I’tisam al-Din (1730–1800), and Hayratnamah-yi Sufara (1810) by Mirza Abu al-Hasan Khan Shirazi (1776–1846), it argues the Indian and Iranian travellers presented the political, social, and military developments in England as wondrous to inform their readers about their desirability, and to critique some undesirable aspects of their own societies and cultures. By analysing these two Persian travelogues, this article also sheds light on some of the commonalities in perceptions of European civilisation circulating in the Persianate world in this period.
摘要在十八世纪的最后几十年，随着欧洲势力在亚洲的崛起，印度人和伊朗人来到欧洲，写下了关于欧洲社会、文化和政治的文章。本文分析了一位印度人和一位伊朗人在英国的最早波斯游记，以展示印度-伊朗旅行者是如何理解欧洲文明并设想自己相对于欧洲人的地位的。通过分析Mirza I'tisam al-Din（1730–1800）的Shigarfnamah yi Wilayat（1785）和Mirza Abu al-Hasan Khan Shirazi（1776–1846）的Hayratnamah yi Sufara（1810），它认为印度和伊朗旅行者将英国的政治、社会和军事发展描述为奇妙的，并批判他们自己的社会和文化中一些不受欢迎的方面。通过分析这两部波斯游记，本文还揭示了这一时期在波斯人世界流传的对欧洲文明的一些看法的共性。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2179449
Teresa Gómez Reus
ABSTRACT This article examines Royall Tyler’s reorientation of Hispanic studies, from Moorish Andalusia to medieval Christian Spain. Drawing on archival material, the article traces this young American art historian’s visits to the Iberian Peninsula that culminated in the publication of Spain: A Study of her Life and Arts (1909). This unaccountably neglected text was pioneering in its exploration of the art of Romanesque Spain, describing, for the first time, uncharted monuments that did not feature on the cultural map of Spain. Part travel guide and part scholarly account, Spain: A Study of her Life and Arts represents a significant missing link between the type of impressionistic vistas of Spain produced by the early romantics and later nineteenth-century travellers and the work of the more thoroughly academic art scholars Georgiana Goddard King and Arthur Kingsley Porter, who followed in Tyler’s wake after the First World War.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2023.2212869
H. Williams
ABSTRACT This article moves beyond the more usual focus on hierarchical relations between “major” and “minor” cultures to contribute to the emerging debate on the importance of the relations of peripheries with each other, by seeking out the hidden tensions in a rich corpus of travel writing relating to a neo-druidic event in Cardiff in 1899, to which a group of enthusiastic Bretons, mostly from the ranks of the newly formed Union Régionaliste Bretonne [Breton Regionalist Union], were invited. The main texts analysed are by Anatole Le Braz, Charles Le Goffic, François Jaffrennou and Frañsez Vallée. These texts are in French, Breton and Welsh. The analysis reveals tensions within Breton regionalism as well as tensions between two minority cultures.
本文超越了通常对“主要”和“次要”文化之间等级关系的关注，通过寻找与1899年卡迪夫新德鲁伊事件相关的丰富旅行写作语库中隐藏的紧张关系，为外围相互关系的重要性做出了贡献，该事件邀请了一群热情的布列塔尼人，主要来自新成立的联盟r区域主义者Bretonne[布列塔尼地区主义者联盟]。分析的主要文本是由Anatole Le Braz, Charles Le Goffic, franois Jaffrennou和Frañsez vall。这些文本是用法语、布列塔尼语和威尔士语写成的。分析揭示了布列塔尼地区主义内部的紧张关系，以及两个少数民族文化之间的紧张关系。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2022.2099125
A. McKim
ABSTRACT This article examines the travel letters of James Russel (c.1720–63), an aspiring painter, separated for many years from his close-knit family in England while he studied in Rome. His letters powerfully and poignantly convey the importance to him of maintaining family ties. They also offer a rare opportunity to trace how he came to fashion them for public consumption, while still retaining personal affect. This is seen especially in the glimpses they give of his growing realisation that he lacks the necessary level of “proficiency” to succeed as a painter of the first rank. Russel’s role as a cicerone influenced the composition as well as the content of his correspondence, best illustrated in his letters to his sister Clemmy, another aspiring artist, but one who lacked her brother’s opportunities to train abroad. The letters also enrich and expand our understanding of the conventional Grand Tour narrative.
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