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OverviewThe 2020 COVID-19 pandemic imposed immobility on large sectors of the world's population, with confinement becoming an everyday reality. The lives of those who previously enjoyed the privileges of being 'fast castes' ground to a halt, while at the same time the displacement of more vulnerable populations along well-established migration corridors has been radically reduced. The result has been a recalibration of the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby. This situation has provided an opportunity for those who study travel and travel writing to rethink their objects of study and approaches to them. This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of 'microtravel', designating slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Forsdick , Zoë Kinsley , Kate WalchesterPublisher: Anthem Press Imprint: Anthem Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781839986581ISBN 10: 1839986581 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 04 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Microtravel: An Introduction ; Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester; Section 1. Confinement and Immobility; How to Travel in Monastic Confinement: An Imaginary Journey to the New World; Joëlle Weis; The Nile, Immortality and the Body in Lucy Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt; Sally Abed; A Slow Boat to Indochina: Immobility and Micro-movements on the Road to Indochina; Gábor Gelléri; No Going Back: Interrupted Journeys and Identity Crisis in Marie Ndiaye ; Carole Delaitre; Section 2. Deceleration and Pedestrianism; Friedrich Engels Travels in a Chimney; Jayson Althofer; ‘I Wanted to Think, Write, Stay or Move on at My Own Speed and Unencumbered’: Pedestrian Rites of Passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts; Béatrice Blanchet; ‘Foot foundered and broken down’: Painful Pedestrianism in John Clare’s ‘Journey out of Essex’ ; Zoë Kinsley; Section 3. Palimpsestic Travel; Elegy for the Living: Travels in Guyana with Michael Swan and Wilson Harris; Patricia Murray; Back to Base: Palimpsest Travel in the Black Country Geopark; R. M. Francis; Observed and Reflected: Women Tourists, Microtravel and Souvenirs, 1750–1830 ; Emma Gleadhill; Section 4. Microspection and Microsound; ‘This Is a Place Where We Should Like to Have Lived’: The Garden As ‘Dwelling Place’ in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writing; Kathryn Walchester; In a Sound World: On Microaudition As a Mode of Microtravel; Charles Forsdick; ‘The echo of great spaces traversed’: Microaudition and Vertical Travel in In Search of Lost Time; Eleanor Lischka; IndexReviews‘In keeping with its subject, Microtravel notices details that often go overlooked and recognises heterogeneity in an area supposed by casual observers to be homogeneous. Its topic and approach make this volume a rich and nuanced study, one that expands our understanding of both travel and writing.’ — Tim Youngs, Emeritus Professor of English and Travel Studies, Nottingham Trent University ‘This book turns travel on its head. Opening our eyes to the world doesn’t always mean covering long distances. Here we follow travellers and travel writers who move vertically, rather than horizontally, explore endotic rather than exotic geographies, stretching their powers of observation and imagination. Like all the best travel writing, this book is full of insights and delights.’ — Richard Phillips, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield ‘A timely collection that boldly raises important questions and coaxes from its contributors refreshing new readings of what they demonstrate is a substantial body of texts with a long history. These finely contextualised case studies are sure to provoke renewed critical attention to modes of microtravel writing hitherto neglected and under-theorised.’ — Alasdair Pettinger, co-editor of The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing ‘This is a fascinating and timely contribution to the scholarship of travel and travel writing. At a time when the experience of enforced states is still fresh in many minds, the pieces collected here compel us to reconsider the parameters of travel itself, and to focus less on the far horizon, more on the granular and immediate detail.’ —Tim Hannigan, author of The Travel Writing Tribe and The Granite Kingdom and Lecturer in Writing and Literature, The Atlantic Technological University Sligo ‘This stimulating collection of essays opens up new possibilities for understanding both the phenomenon of “microtravel” and its associated travel writing. Focusing on travel with limitations – of speed, of radius, of confinement, of immobility – the authors range widely and helpfully across historical periods, geographical locations and cultural contexts.’ —Betty Hagglund, University of Birmingham ‘In keeping with its subject, Microtravel notices details that often go overlooked and recognises heterogeneity in an area supposed by casual observers to be homogeneous. Its topic and approach make this volume a rich and nuanced study, one that expands our understanding of both travel and writing.’ — Tim Youngs, Emeritus Professor of English and Travel Studies, Nottingham Trent University ‘This book turns travel on its head. Opening our eyes to the world doesn’t always mean covering long distances. Here we follow travellers and travel writers who move vertically, rather than horizontally, explore endotic rather than exotic geographies, stretching their powers of observation and imagination. Like all the best travel writing, this book is full of insights and delights.’ — Richard Phillips, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield ‘A timely collection that boldly raises important questions and coaxes from its contributors refreshing new readings of what they demonstrate is a substantial body of texts with a long history. These finely contextualised case studies are sure to provoke renewed critical attention to modes of microtravel writing hitherto neglected and under-theorised.’ — Alasdair Pettinger, co-editor of The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing Author InformationCharles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. Zo Kinsley is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University. Kathryn Walchester is Reader and Subject Leader for English at Liverpool John Moores University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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