An edition of Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel
(2013)
Traveling in Place
A History of Armchair Travel
by Bernd Stiegler
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How a house arrest in 18th century France led to a new genre of travel literature involving close reportage of small places requiring little or no travel, and how the genre developed over the ensuing centuries.
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Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel
2013, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
Brief Travel Guide
1. The Journey around the Room
2. Pilgrimages
3. The "Frauenzimmer"
4. Expeditions in the Near-at-Hand
5. Framed Views
6. The Life of Plants
7. The Life of Objects
8. The Journey through a Sea of Images
9. Dark Chambers
10. Interiors
11. The Flaneur
Excursion and Stopover: Around the World in 80 Days
12. Peregrinations
13. Travels with a Room
14. A Cinematic Baedeker
15. The Journey to La Defense
16. Journeys into the World as Text
17. The Journey into Oneself
18. Crossing-Crisscrossing
19. Cinematic Explorations
20. Near Distance
21. The Final Journey
Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
Index of Names
Edition Notes
Classifications
Contributors
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
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| June 18, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| September 12, 2016 | Edited by r. clayton | Added new cover |
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