Microtravel (eBook, ePUB)

Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection
Redaktion: Forsdick, Charles; Walchester, Kate; Kinsley, Zoë

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839986598
• Artikelnr.: 70611148

Autorenporträt

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; Zoë 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes 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
Index