Metamorphoses of Travel Writing: Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions

This book reflects, comments on and adds to a fast growing field of travel writing studies. The twenty-five papers in this volume rely on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and explore a diverse body of travel writing texts created over the last three hundred years in English, Polish, Hungarian and French. The book is divided into three parts. The first one includes papers which apply the findings of post-structuralism, generic and cultural criticism as well as narratology to explore theories, canons and genres in travel writing drawing material not only from non-fictional and fictional prose narratives but also from poetry and tragedy. The second and third parts contain papers on a wide selection of travel writing texts, both fictional and non-fictional, written in Anglophone, as well as other literary traditions. They are arranged chronologically: the second part is devoted to texts written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the third part focuses on those written in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Grzegorz Moroz is Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Bialystok, Poland. He has co-edited four books on the identity and difference in literatures written in English and German. His research interests include the writings of Aldous Huxley, travel writing theory and British literary travel writing. Jolanta Sztachelska is Professor of Polish at the University of Bialystok, Poland. Her research interests include Polish literature of the second half of 19th century in the contexts of European literatures and the genealogy of the genres of popular literature. She has published on reportage and travel writing; her latest book is entitled Czar i zaklecie Sienkiewicza Studia i szkice (The Charm and Spell of Sienkiewicz: Studies and Sketches) (2003).