Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing: New Directions
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 566
Special Issue Editor
Interests: literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; travel writing; poetic depictions of landscape and travel; manuscript culture; and literary representations of the British coast
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Humanities considers the ways in which our thinking about eighteenth-century travelling practices and the texts that narrate them is informed and advanced by engagement with recent developments in the field of travel writing studies, or in the study of humanities more widely. It looks to identify critical approaches which offer new ways of thinking about familiar works and traditions, and it also invites the discussion of texts that have, to date, been neglected or passed over.
This Special Issue invites new perspectives on the “dominant categories” of travel writing in the eighteenth century—the Grand Tour, home tour, and “exotic sea voyages and explorations” (Leask 94-95)—as well as encouraging submissions that blur the boundaries between those categories, or which look to texts that do not fit these designations. This volume invites fresh thinking about forms of movement and experience, forms of textual production, and bodies that move in the spaces of travel. We also welcome contributions that offer a long view on present-day concerns about nature and climate change, by engaging with work in Environmental or Blue Humanities to provide a historical perspective on the impact of travel, or the way that travellers understand their relationship to the world around them. The editor is looking for contributions on travel writing from across the period, in manuscript or print, by travellers who are well known or who might be new to readers. Articles from a range of different linguistic, cultural, or travelling traditions are welcome.
These may include, but are not limited to, consideration of the following:
- Blue Humanities;
- Travel and environmental change;
- The “more-than-human”;
- Vertical, slow, or micro-travel;
- Travel and the senses;
- Travel and disability;
- Travel and the body;
- Travel and conflict;
- Travel and revolution;
- Forced journeys;
- Travel accounts in verse or image;
- Travellee perspectives;
- New perspectives on the relationship between the “rise of the novel” and the travel writing tradition.
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Dr. Zoë Kinsley or the editorial office by [14th June 2024]. Please also feel free to contact us for an informal discussion about the project.
Dr. Zoe Kinsley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- blue humanities
- travel and environmental change
- the “more-than-human”
- vertical, slow, or micro-travel
- travel and the senses
- travel and disability
- travel and the body
- travel and conflict
- travel and revolution
- forced journeys
- travel accounts in verse or image
- traveler perspectives
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