Search for dissertations about: "travel writing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words travel writing.

  2. 1. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps

    Author : Maria Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; travel writing; tourism; guide books; authenticity; intertextuality; influence; recognitions; disappointments; images of home; gender roles; heroism; feminisms; biography; autobiography; museums;

    Abstract : In a time dominated by mass tourism and the search for what has been termed authenticity, travel narratives are again of academic interest. This study seeks to demonstrate how travel writers from the 1980s and 1990s increasingly turn to earlier texts for inspiration and guidance. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Scandinavian sporting tour : A case study in geographical imagology

    Author : Pia Sillanpää; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tourism; tourism history; travel; travel writing; Geographical Imagology; image; Jämtland; Tröndelag; Scandinavian; British travellers; fishing; shooting; hunting; sporting gentlemen; imperialism; exploration; Other Germanic languages; Övriga germanska språk;

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  5. 3. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE

  6. 4. Between Utopia and Home : Swedish radical travel writing 1947-1966

    Author : Agneta Edman; Historia; []
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  7. 5. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

    Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE