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Writing on the Move

Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing

SAMIA OUNOUGHI, Tim Hannigan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-355-5 (ISBN)
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Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as ‘travel writing’ in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.
Travel writing appears to be the most oxymoronic of genres: the practice of writing and reading typically requires stasis and travel writing emerges from movement. From the concurrent physical and emotional journeys of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach to the instantaneous digital discourses of contemporary urban travellers, and from the challenges of writing in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic to those of updating guidebooks via Google Streetview, this book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts. Writing on the Move asks questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ – and what counts as ‘travel writing’ – in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.

Samia Ounoughi is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université Grenoble Alpes. She is a member of LIDILEM and LABEX ITTEM where she works with geographers, cartographers, and historians. Her research deals with the relations between language and space, and she specialises in corpus discourse analysis of mountain travel writing. Publications include co-editing Exceptions and Exceptionality in Travel Writing with Anne-Florence Quaireau (2020) and Twenty-First Century Perspectives in British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies with Emmanuelle Peraldo (2025).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Travel Writing and Movement

Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan



Chapter 1. Figures in a Landscape: Movement, Stasis and the Travel Writer as Image Collector

Tim Hannigan



Chapter 2. Canoeing on the Waterways of Europe: Defining a Practice and a Genre through Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage and Accounts of Other Travellers

Kévin Cristin



Chapter 3. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s Literary and Visual European Journeys: A ‘Carnival by the Sea’, and Many ‘Quick Odysseys’

Elisabeth Bouzonviller



Chapter 4. Terror, Pity, Love: The Trials and Tribulations of Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart on the Road to Kabul

Julia Szołtysek



Chapter 5. The Novel at the End of the Road: The Soul Circuit of Jack Kerouac as a Professional Writer

Martin Wable



Chapter 6. ‘A Strange Kind of Limbo’: Navigating the Unknown in Contemporary Anglophone Female Travel Writing

Gemma Lake



Chapter 7. Writing from the Ice: An Examination of Contemporary Travel Writing in Antarctica

Kelly E. Hall



Chapter 8. Moving between Modes: Robert Macfarlane’s and Kathleen Jamie’s Journeys on Foot and in Time

Monika Kocot



Chapter 9. ‘Did They Even Go There?’: Virtual Experience and Projected Journeys in Contemporary Travel Guidebooks

Tim Hannigan



Chapter 10. Dialogue Journaling in Travel Writing Projects

Clarisse Chicot-Feindouno, Charles Mansfield and Mark Stothard



Conclusion. Writing on the Move: About and Beyond Travel Writing

Samia Ounoughi



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2026
Zusatzinfo Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-83695-355-0 / 1836953550
ISBN-13 978-1-83695-355-5 / 9781836953555
Zustand Neuware
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