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.
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 Stevensons An Inland Voyage and Accounts of Other
Travellers
Kévin Cristin
Chapter
3. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgeralds 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 Szotysek
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 Macfarlanes and Kathleen Jamies
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
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).
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