The Cambridge history of travel writing
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27 - 912074
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781316556740
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781316556740
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Centre for Travel Writing Studies
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This study was designed to offer a breadth and depth of travel writing scholarship that would be unique in a single-volume work in the field. Complicating stereotypical views of travel writing as inherently Eurocentric and colonialist, the collection examines over two millennia of travel writing from many countries and in several languages both outside and within Europe. Across the 36 chapters contributors discuss a vast range of travellers, texts, literary traditions and cultural contexts. Between them, the volume’s editors, experts in Early Modern and post-1800 travel writing respectively, bringing together half-a-century of research and editorial experience in the subject.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This 260,000-word volume, solicited by CUP, consists of 36 specially commissioned chapters by senior, mid- and early-career scholars from several countries. Eight chapters offer a cumulative chronology covering more than two thousand years, 10 examine travel writing in global contexts (including Arabic, Indian and Chinese), 6 examine various types of place, 8 analyse forms of travel writing (including digital) and 4 focus on critical approaches. The editors’ several decades of research on travel writing (Das’s on early modern and Youngs’s on modern travel writing) ensured breadth and depth of coverage and reference to appropriate scholarship. Das and Youngs commissioned and co-edited all the chapters in the volume, providing detailed feedback on each essay, along with co-authoring the 7,250-word introduction. Youngs also contributed a 6,500-word chapter on the contexts and characteristics of British travel writing after 1900. The 20,700-word secondary bibliography is freely available on the Cambridge University Press website as a resource associated with this volume.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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