Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Forms of Travel, Modes of Transport

   1. Introduction: Forms of Travel, Modes of Transport

      • Brian H. Murray

      Pages 1-18

3. Material Collections, Visual Interventions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Topos, Taxonomy and Travel in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Scrapbooks

      • Clare Pettitt

      Pages 21-41

   3. Material (Re)collections of the ‘Shiny East’: A Late Nineteenth-Century Travel Account by a Young British Woman in India

      • Renate Dohmen

      Pages 42-64

   4. Photography, Travel Writing and Tactile Tourism: Extra-Illustrating The Marble Faun

      • Victoria Mills

      Pages 65-86

   5. Photography and the Real: The Biblical Gaze and the Professional Album in the Holy Land

      • Simon Goldhill

      Pages 87-111

4. Locating Literary Form

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Getting Socially on the Road: The Short, Happy Life of the Anapaestic Tourism Narrative, 1766–1830

      • A. V. Seaton

      Pages 115-138

   3. The Aura of Place: Poetic Form and the Protestant Cemetery in Rome

      • Alison Chapman

      Pages 139-155

   4. In the Steps of Saint Paul

      • Michael Ledger-Lomas

      Pages 156-174

   5. From Transport to Transgression: Alexander Pushkin’s Literary Journeys

      • Nicholas Warner

      Pages 175-193

   6. Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed

      • Peter Garratt

      Pages 194-212

5. Back Matter

   Pages 213-248

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This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

• Travel writing
• nineteenth-century
• Romanticism
• Victorian
• empire
• visual culture
• bibliography
• India
• John Ruskin
• knowledge
• media
• photography
• Victorian era
• women
• writing

“Book history as a field has shown an increasing willingness in recent years to engage with neighbouring fields, and interesting cross-fertilisations may arise in unexpected places: as such, SHARPists with an interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual culture may well find much here of interest.” (Susan Pickford, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, August, 2016)​

• King’s College London, UK

  Mary Henes, Brian H. Murray

Brian H. Murray, University of Cambridge, UK. Mary Henes, independent scholar, UK. Clare Pettitt, King's College London, UK. Renate Dohmen, Open University, UK. Victoria Mills, University of Cambridge, UK. Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK. A.V. Seaton, University of Limerick, Ireland Alison Chapman, University of Victoria, Canada Michael Ledger-Lomas, King's College London, UK. Nicholas Warner, Claremont McKenna College, USA. Peter Garratt, Durham University, USA.

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