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The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697 ; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.

Thematology --- French literature --- Travelers' writings, French --- French literature. --- Travelers' writings, French. --- French travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- French-speaking countries. --- Francophone countries

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This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing.

Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers' writings, Dutch --- History and criticism. --- 839.3-9 --- 839.3-9 Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 --- Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 --- Non-fiction --- Thematology --- German literature --- Dutch literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- E-books

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Les articles réunis dans ce livre constituent une invitation au voyage, tout d'abord dans l'Espagne du XVIIIe siècle, si mal connue des Français, une Espagne engagée dans un effort de régénération dont les ilustrados sont les principaux artisans. L'action de ces hommes, leurs rêves aussi, ont été affectés par la Révolution qui les surprend, les inquiète et les indigne même, quand elle se fait plus violente, si l'on en croit la majorité des témoignages accessibles, les réactions favorables étant beaucoup plus difficiles à déceler. On entre ensuite dans l'Espagne du XIXe siècle, à la suite des nombreux voyageurs qui franchissent alors les Pyrénées pour découvrir une nation auréolée de tous les attraits de l'exotisme. De leurs récits naîtra l'image de « l’Espagne romantique », un cliché soumis ici à un minutieux examen. Le voyage que l'on effectue en compagnie de Jean-René Aymes se fait sans courir la poste : il s'agit de voir des êtres et des choses, d'observer des phénomènes, d'analyser pour comprendre, en s'aidant, au besoin, de la comparaison ou de l'interaction des regards croisés. Un voyage instructif, assurément, mais jamais ennuyeux en raison de l'alacrité de la pensée et de la plume.

Romanticism --- Romantisme --- Spain --- France --- Espagne --- Description and travel --- History --- Foreign public opinion, Spanish --- Descriptions et voyages --- Histoire --- Opinion publique espagnole --- French --- Travelers' writings, French --- French travelers' writings --- French literature --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology --- Travel&delete& --- Description and travel. --- French (Nation) --- 19th century --- Authors [French ] --- Biography --- Social conditions --- Revolution, 1789-1799 --- Influence --- Foreign public opinion, Spanish. --- Travel --- Travelers' writings, French. --- History. --- Révolution française --- XIXème siècle --- voyage --- XVIIIème siècle --- romantisme

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This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788-1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington's four travel books: 'A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820' (1822), 'Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821' (1822), 'The Idler in Italy' (1839) and 'The Idler in France' (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Travelers' writings, English --- Travel writing --- History and criticism. --- History --- Blessington, Marguerite, --- B, --- Blessington, --- Blessington, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, --- Gardiner, Marguerite --- Power, Margaret --- Farmer, Margaret --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Exoticism in literature --- Travelers' writings, French --- Colonies in literature --- French literature --- History and criticism --- Loti, Pierre, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism --- French literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Loti, Pierre, - 1850-1923 - Criticism and interpretation --- Loti, Pierre, - 1850-1923