Travel Writing And History

Question 1

Types of travel writing

Answer 1

Travel brochure - sell a dream/destination
Journalist articles - newspapers/magazines
Guide book - lonely planet
Travel book - rich literature (ethnographic source), about travellers not tourists

Question 2

Trends in travel writing

Answer 2

1st trend emerging - nature as central character (European and non European worlds, urban on non urban, cultured bourgeois on peasants and primitives)
2nd - sentimental hero as traveller (narrator central character, quest, journey back home)
3rd - romantic period (sensitivities of the narrator, the traveller, typically male

Question 3

Aspects of the genre

Answer 3

Tw influences by origins

1. When - historical location, ideology of time and place
2. Author - class, social milieu, background, gender, ethnicity
3. Validity - verifiable? Really exists? How much fiction?
4. Classification - genre, income, constructed like fiction, must have plot

Question 4

Travel relevant writers

Answer 4

1. Travellers who write
2. Travel writers (travel to write)
3. Place writers and novelists
4. Novelists who use travel as central theme
   Women travel writers and biographers - new role models, confront media control of gender roles, biographies construct and reconstruct role models