War in Travel Literature

These twelve chapters show how war functions as a subject, theme, impetus—willing and not—and backdrop in travel writing. Literature about travel and war in tandem enables readers to rethink both categories. The forms of travel writing about war addressed in this collection, including cookbooks and military magazines along with nonfiction narrative and memoir, reveal how heterogenous travel writing can be. To study travel in connection with war expands readers’ understanding of the multiple motivations instigating travellers’ journeys. War is about more than fighting on a battlefield; its reach is extensive, encompassing the spheres surrounding its battlefields and fronts. The many actors involved in any conflict attests to the ways war is absorbed into their worlds, permeates their thoughts and spurs their actions. Readers interested in travel literature from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the present day will find this volume to be of especial interest.

Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English, Global Studies and Animal Studies at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA. She has published collections, essays, articles, chapters and reviews on Anglophone and global literatures, travel literature and Animal Studies.

Orkun Kocabıyık is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. His publications focus on nineteenth-century British travel writing, Turkish literature in English, translation studies and cultural encounters.

Elisabetta Marino is Associate Professor of English literature and head of the Asia and the West research center at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. She has published books, collections, articles, essays, chapters and translations on British Romanticism, and postcolonial and travel literatures.

Andrew Smyth is Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He has published on Young Adult Literature, Early Modern English and Irish Literature, and Animal Studies.

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Annessa Ann Babic

Nicholas J. Barnett

Jeanne Dubino

Petra Kavrečič

Orkun Kocabıyık

Donna Landry

Gerald MacLean

Elisabetta Marino

Olivera Popović

Andrew J. Smyth

Meldan Tanrisal