BERGHAHN BOOKS : Writing On The Move

berghahn New York · Oxford

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Travel Writing and Movement
Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan

Chapter 1. Figures in a Landscape: Movement, Stasis and the Travel Writer as Image Collector
Tim Hannigan

Chapter 2. Canoeing on the Waterways of Europe: Defining a Practice and a Genre through Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage and Accounts of Other Travellers
Kévin Cristin

Chapter 3. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s Literary and Visual European Journeys: A ‘Carnival by the Sea’, and Many ‘Quick Odysseys’
Elisabeth Bouzonviller

Chapter 4. Terror, Pity, Love: The Trials and Tribulations of Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart on the Road to Kabul
Julia Szołtysek

Chapter 5. The Novel at the End of the Road: The Soul Circuit of Jack Kerouac as a Professional Writer
Martin Wable

Chapter 6. ‘A Strange Kind of Limbo’: Navigating the Unknown in Contemporary Anglophone Female Travel Writing
Gemma Lake

Chapter 7. Writing from the Ice: An Examination of Contemporary Travel Writing in Antarctica
Kelly E. Hall

Chapter 8. Moving between Modes: Robert Macfarlane’s and Kathleen Jamie’s Journeys on Foot and in Time
Monika Kocot

Chapter 9. ‘Did They Even Go There?’: Virtual Experience and Projected Journeys in Contemporary Travel Guidebooks
Tim Hannigan

Chapter 10. Dialogue Journaling in Travel Writing Projects
Clarisse Chicot-Feindouno, Charles Mansfield and Mark Stothard

Conclusion. Writing on the Move: About and Beyond Travel Writing
Samia Ounoughi

Index

Writing on the MoveForm, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel WritingEdited by Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan

272 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-83695-355-5 Hb Published (February 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-356-2 eBook

Details

Travel writing appears to be the most oxymoronic of genres: the practice of writing and reading typically requires stasis, and travel writing emerges from movement. From the concurrent physical and emotional journeys of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach to the instantaneous digital discourses of contemporary urban travellers, and from the challenges of writing in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic to those of updating guidebooks via Google Streetview, this book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts. Writing on the Move asks questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ – and what counts as ‘travel writing’ – in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.

Samia Ounoughi is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université Grenoble Alpes. She is a member of LIDILEM and LABEX ITTEM where she works with geographers, cartographers, and historians. Her research deals with the relations between language and space, and she specialises in corpus discourse analysis of mountain travel writing. Publications include co-editing Exceptions and Exceptionality in Travel Writing with Anne-Florence Quaireau (2020) and Twenty-First Century Perspectives in British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies with Emmanuelle Peraldo (2025).

Tim Hannigan is Assistant Lecturer in Writing and Literature at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo, Ireland. He is also an experienced travel writer and the author of several books including The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey (Apollo, 2023). His research focusses on ethical issues in contemporary and nineteenth-century travel writing. His work has been published in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journeys, Terrae Incognitae, Studies in Travel Writing and various edited collections.

Subject: Travel & Tourism General Cultural Studies

Area:

LC: G156 .W75 2026

BISAC: TRV010000 TRAVEL/Essays & Travelogues; SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/General; LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM/General