
Travel Writing and Re-Enactment
Echotourism
Lucas Tromly(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
132 pages
978-1-032-43708-8 (ISBN)
Description
Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactment of past journeys in a number of contexts, including Benjamin's writing on mechanical reproduction, Judith Butler's work on gender performance, and postmodern parody. Echotourist journeys are surprisingly contingent and precarious, and force travellers to navigate historical changes involving empire, gender, and travel practice in densely performative ways. Through close readings of contemporary travel narratives, this monograph considers the legacies of Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Graham Greene, Mary Kingsley, and Ernest Shackleton, among others. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment examines the way literary re-enactment expresses, and sometimes confounds, the desire to find meaning through travel in the contemporary world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
215 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-43708-8 (9781032437088)
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Person
Lucas Tromly is an associate professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. He has published in the fields of modernism, comics studies, and Asian North American literature.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Belated Explorers
Chapter Two: Echotourists and Anti-Tourism
Chapter Three: Echotourism and Masculinity
Chapter Four: Echotourism and Women Writers
Chapter Five: Echotourism and Postmodernism
Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Chapter One: Belated Explorers
Chapter Two: Echotourists and Anti-Tourism
Chapter Three: Echotourism and Masculinity
Chapter Four: Echotourism and Women Writers
Chapter Five: Echotourism and Postmodernism
Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture
Bibliography
Index