Travel, Writing and the Media

Barbara Korte is a Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg. Anna Karina Sennefelder is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Coordinator of the graduate research group "New Travel – New Media" funded by the Volkswagenstiftung Foundation.

• Introduction 1. Travel in Social Media: From Historical Albums to Selfies and Stories 2. Travelling Texts and the Influence of Images: Nineteenth- Century Popular Geographical Travel Magazines 3. The Media Logic of Victorian Periodicals: Affordances for Travel Writing 4. Fleming, Maillart and Their Leicas: Photography and the Transformations of Interwar Travel Writing 5. German Radio Travelogues in the 1950s: Wolfgang Koeppen and Ernst Schnabel 6. Walking Books: Practices, Semantics and Mediations of Literary Walks 7. Binge-Watching the World: Contemporary Travel Television on Netflix 8. Video Games as Travel Writing 9. Harmful or Empowering Convergence?: The Female Traveller and Insta-Aesthetics — Selfies and Documentaries 10. Youth and Travel Narration: Exploring the Jade Hameister Archive 11. Challenging the Tourist Gaze?: Exploring Majority World Countriesʼ Instagram Influencer Practices and the Link to Citizen Travel Journalism 12. Travel Writing Between Poetics and Politics: Three Case Studies on the Genreʼs Mediati(sati)on

"This timely investigation of the mediation and mediatisation of the foreign through travel explores the textual and visual conduits through which travel experiences have been communicated to increasingly global audiences. It makes a bold and exciting contribution to travel writing studies and media history."Alison E. Martin, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz/Germersheim, Germany"This is a ground-breaking volume: embracing inter alia magazines, photographs, radio broadcasts and video games, TEDx talks, Twitter feeds, Instagram influencers and Netflix, it maps in exemplary and thought-provoking fashion the multimodal and intermedial dimensions of modern travel culture, from the eighteenth century to the present day."Carl Thompson, University of Surrey, UK