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Travel Writing
Author(s): Casey Blanton (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: December 4, 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 166 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415938937
- ISBN-13: 9780415938938
Book Description
Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin.
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About the Author
Casey Blanton teaches English and humanities at Daytona Beach Community College and is Co-editor of SouthernQuarterly’s special issue on photography.
