James Buzard
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122760
- eISBN:
- 9780191671531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122760.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter focuses on American and British travel writers in Europe during the period from 1825 to 1875. It examines the special considerations and interpretive efforts incumbent upon writing ...
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This chapter focuses on American and British travel writers in Europe during the period from 1825 to 1875. It examines the special considerations and interpretive efforts incumbent upon writing tourists/travellers and describes two main observations that recur frequently in their accounts. These include the observations that the Continental tour seemed to be surrounded and regulated by a variety of guiding texts and that by writing one's own travel record one had to work within the boundaries mapped out by those prior texts.Less
This chapter focuses on American and British travel writers in Europe during the period from 1825 to 1875. It examines the special considerations and interpretive efforts incumbent upon writing tourists/travellers and describes two main observations that recur frequently in their accounts. These include the observations that the Continental tour seemed to be surrounded and regulated by a variety of guiding texts and that by writing one's own travel record one had to work within the boundaries mapped out by those prior texts.
Pete Hulme
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311802.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the evolution of US travel writing about Cuba, beginning with a broad overview, identifying four major periods, eight kinds of writers, five themes, and four itineraries. It ...
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This chapter examines the evolution of US travel writing about Cuba, beginning with a broad overview, identifying four major periods, eight kinds of writers, five themes, and four itineraries. It then describes the works of writers such as Stephen Crane, who produced forty-six reports from Cuba and Puerto Rico, and a series of short stories, Wounds in the Rain (1900); Erik Saar, an army sergeant who supported the intelligence and interrogation operations at Camp Delta as a linguist and interpreter; and James Yee, a Muslim chaplain at Gitmo.Less
This chapter examines the evolution of US travel writing about Cuba, beginning with a broad overview, identifying four major periods, eight kinds of writers, five themes, and four itineraries. It then describes the works of writers such as Stephen Crane, who produced forty-six reports from Cuba and Puerto Rico, and a series of short stories, Wounds in the Rain (1900); Erik Saar, an army sergeant who supported the intelligence and interrogation operations at Camp Delta as a linguist and interpreter; and James Yee, a Muslim chaplain at Gitmo.
