Overview
- Explores the place of the travel writing genre in a post-COVID world
- Examines the problems and solutions apparent for travel writing as it engages with a period of re-thinking
- Addresses ethical dilemmas such as sponsored travel and carbon footprint
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism (PSLJ)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book stems from the question that we as co-authors grappled with for the past 3-plus years while in our own periods of stasis during the pandemic: What place does the travel writing genre hold in a post-COVID world? With the massive interruptions to travel and travel writing across 2020-2023 as the pandemic forced us indoors and into isolation, it also raised many other pertinent questions about the practice of and future of travel writing. Part of the prompt for this book comes from the post-pandemic assumption that in an ecologically fraught, less mobile, and more uncertain world, there may not be a place for travel writing as we know it to exist in any meaningful way. We examine the problems and solutions apparent for travel writing as it engages with a period of re-thinking, prompted by the pandemic, though necessary for a plethora of other reasons as well. As academics and travel writing practitioners, with decades of experience in the field, we offer a unique perspectiveon this topic – as we have the in-the-field experience of professional travel writers, and we have the academic grounding to better understand the history, theoretical concerns and contradictions of the genre to provide a more in-depth perspective to our travel writing colleagues. This grounding allows us to access a unique and valuable perspective for Re-thinking Travel Writing: The Journey of a Genre for academics, aspiring travel writers and contemporary colleagues in the field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Ben Stubbs is a senior lecturer in journalism and creative writing at the University of South Australia.
Dr. Lee Mylne is a media academic who also maintains a successful career as a freelance journalist, specializing in travel and tourism
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-thinking Travel Writing
Book Subtitle: The Journey of a Genre
Authors: Ben Stubbs, Lee Mylne
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56188-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56187-0Published: 07 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56190-0Due: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56188-7Published: 30 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-9539
Series E-ISSN: 2731-9547
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism