Travel Writing, Form, and Empire

Julia Kuehn teaches English literature at the University of Hong Kong. Her publications include Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli’s Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), A Century of Travels in China: Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s (ed., 2007), and China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces (ed., forthcoming 2009). Paul Smethurst is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope (2000) and The Reinvention of Nature: Scientific, Picturesque and Romantic Travel Writing (forthcoming). He is co-editor with Steve Clark of Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and South East Asia (2008).

• ContentsList of FiguresIntroductionPAUL SMETHURSTPART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester JohnMARY BAINE CAMPBELL Richard Hakluyt’s Foreign RelationsMARY FULLER Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636JACK WARWICK The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke’s Travel Writings on ItalySUSAN PICKFORD The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of PowerALI BEHDAD Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin EADAOIN AGNEW Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau’s Eastern TravelsLESA SCHOLL PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in EcuadorDAVID SCOTT Deep Maps: Travelling on the SpotPETER HULME Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's ArtifactTIM YOUNGS Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel WritingROBERT CLARKE To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation TravelPETER BISHOP The Political Tourist’s Archive: Susan Meiselar’s Images of NicaraguaMAUREEN MOYNAGH Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar and Carol DunlopCLAIRE LINDSAYAfterword - Travel and PowerBILL ASHCROFT Notes on ContributorsIndex