Publisher's Synopsis
In terms of motion and narration, travel and travel accounts represent a conflation of spatial and temporal experiences. The articles in this volume examine accounts of real and imaginary journeys from Charles Darwin to Doris Lessing for the changes that have taken place in such experiences between the 19th century and the present, in the context of revolutions both in perception and transportation. Is there such a thing as educative travel in an age of globalized fast-motion culture? What changes have there been to travel schemes of a primarily aesthetic nature in the face of technological and scientific innovations? What culture-critical counter-schemes have been proposed?
