Travel writing in an age of global quarantine /

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic 'authority', each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, '...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, [2021]
Colección:Anthem studies in travel
Temas:
2000-2099
Travel writing > History > 21st century.
Travel > Social aspects > History > 21st century.
COVID-19 (Disease) > Social aspects.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Voyage > Aspect social > Histoire > 21e siècle.
COVID-19 > Aspect social.
COVID-19 (Disease) > Social aspects
Travel > Social aspects
Travel writing
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • Chapter One 'Off-Stage, a War': Wuhan, 1938
  • Notes
  • Chapter Two Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911
  • Frederic Lees
  • Lees in Liguria
  • Lees as a Photographer
  • Lees in Varese
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Chapter Three 'A Rude People Subjected to No Restraint': In Tanimbar with Anna Keith Forbes, Henry Forbes and So'u Melatunan
  • Arrivals
  • Warfare
  • Headhunting
  • A Boy Named So'u
  • The History of Violence
  • Notes
  • Chapter Four Sent to Coventry: A Journey Home?
  • Notes
  • Chapter Five Bedouin Is a Place: Freya Stark's Travels with Nomads
  • Notes
  • Chapter Six With Wilkie in the West: Reading Wilkie Collins's Rambles beyond Railways from a Cornish Perspective
  • Notes
  • Chapter Seven Picturing Rome: Walking the Eternal City with the Last Victorian
  • Notes
  • Chapter Eight Su e zo per i ponti
  • Or, How History Does Not Help
  • Notes
  • Chapter Nine A Town Called Entropy: Boom and Bust in Arnold Bennett's Potteries
  • Notes
  • Chapter Ten Travelling towards Transculturalism? Statues, Remembrance and Mourning in Bloemfontein, South Africa
  • 'They Suffered Courageously and Patiently': Afrikaner Nationalism at Die Nasionale Vrouemonument
  • 'A Source of Inspiration to all South Africans and Indeed to All of Humanity': The Nelson Mandela Statue, Naval Hill
  • Notes
  • Chapter Eleven Recollections of the King's House
  • Notes
  • Chapter Twelve Occupying Her Time: Ginette Eboué, France, 1940-42
  • Notes
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Works Cited

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