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100 1 $aHolland, Patrick,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92015376
245 10 $aTourists with typewriters :$bcritical reflections on contemporary travel writing /$cPatrick Holland and Graham Huggan.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axiv, 261 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction. Travel Writing Today --$gCh. 1.$tAfter Empire --$gCh. 2.$tZones --$gCh. 3.$tGender and Other Troubles --$gCh. 4.$tPostmodern Itineraries --$tPostscript. Travel Writing at the Millennium.
520 $aAs the first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in English after the Second World War. The book focuses in particular on contemporary travel writers such as Jan Morris, Peter Matthiessen, V. S. Naipaul, Barry Lopez, Mary Morris, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, and the late Bruce Chatwin.
520 8 $aIt examines some of the reasons for travel writing's enduring popularity and for its particular appeal to present-day readers, many of them also travelers. The book will appeal to general readers interested in a closer examination of travel writing and to academic readers in disciplines such as literary/cultural studies, geography, history, anthropology, and tourism studies.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112987
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119699
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101039
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112988
650 0 $aVoyages and travels$xHistory$y20th century$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aTravel in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137162
700 1 $aHuggan, Graham,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92099458
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