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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to ‘re-subjectification’ and the assertion of a ‘late-Romantic’ sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.
Text Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
TEXT Special Issue 56: RE-mapping Travel Writing in the 21 st Century eds2019 •
Encounters with the historical and contemporary materiality of travel may occur objectively and/or imaginatively, as the traveller moves by air, land or water, passes streets, squares, buildings, enters rooms, museums, palaces, crosses bridges, mountains, canyons. Even other people can present as material entities, encapsulating the shock of difference, the flesh and odours of lived reality, the impossibility of possession. However prepared for a journey by reading, thinking, and research, in the end, for the writer as traveller, it is the act of travel while writing itself which becomes the heuristic enterprise, the experiment which leads to a solution, an understanding or a new question that may never be definitively solved. This discussion explores the representability of travel writing as material engagement and as a creative endeavour of scholarly inquiry. The presentation will take the form of a framed auto/narrative which follows a sequence of journeys undertaken by the author, in reverse order that speak to questions of authenticity and illusion across space and time.
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This is the story of my transatlantic life experience as an American pursuing a PhD in the UK for five years in dialogue with some British travellers that have comprised my scholarly inquiry for over ten years. Some travellers include: Morris Birkbeck, who left England for Illinois in 1817 seeking agricultural opportunities; he published his travelogue in 1818 inviting others to join him. William Cobbett, a well-known social reformer and outspoken critic of Birkbeck, Published his travelogue in 1818. William Faux responded to Birkbeck’s call; he criticized America for the practice of slavery, but enjoyed the plantation comforts slavery afforded. Frances Wright wanted to “fix” America’s slavery problem but otherwise saw the nation as a utopia; she travelled as a 20-something single woman and published her glowing report in 1821, returning in 1824 to implement a slavery-solution. Frances Trollope, vitriolic critic of American manners, ended up frustrated in Cincinnati after following Frances Wright and not getting what she bargained for. These travellers responded in print to each other, or knew each other personally. The chapter will offer research alongside reflections on travel, identity, nation, and privilege. As a storyteller and performer, this essay is based on a performative-dialogue delivered at the inter-disciplinary.net Storytelling conference of 2016 where my twenty-first century traveller-self spoke before an audience with a cast of traveller-characters.
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Transport, Wayfaring and Ways of Knowing in Victorian Writing2012 •
This piece revolves around a terminological distinction between transport and wayfaring which I have adopted from Tim Ingold. I use this distinction to work through a number of closely related Victorian concerns ranging from epistemology and natural history to the sensation novel and the arrival of the railway.
"This research draws on feminist and post-structuralist theory to question the way urban travel has been reflected upon by urban professionals and the effects of this mode of reflection. Rather than focus upon automobile/non-automobile travel, this study locates cycling, walking, roller-blading, riding in a wheelchair, taking the tram, bus, train or car within a broader examination of urban travel practices and being in urban space. The study uses the City of Adelaide, South Australia, as a site through which to examine the way bodies, spaces and the conduct of travel have been objectified and subsequently intervened upon by urban experts. *** If I was writing this dissertation today, I would not focus on language but would emphasize the materiality of discursive practices (see Bacchi and Bonham forthcoming in Foucault Studies). "
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