Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900

The nineteenth-century travel writer cannibalised other modes of literary, geographical and scientific writing, while simultaneously forging experimental and dynamic forms in the struggle to represent the contingent realities of the road. This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the period, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation across the long nineteenth century. The first part of the volume combines literary scholarship with art-historical research and explores points of intersection between the print, visual and material culture of travel. The second section investigates how existing literary and historical narratives affected the literary representation of popular sites, and how the material realities of transport impacted upon the formal techniques through which these experiences were represented.

Mary Henes is an independent scholar working in the UK. She completed her doctoral thesis at King's College London in 2012. She now works in widening participation while continuing to research and publish, particularly on women's twentieth-century travel writing.

Brian H. Murray is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture, an interdisciplinary research project based at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. He has recently published articles on Dickens's travel writing, the literature of African exploration, and fantasies of the biblical past in nineteenth century Ireland.