Writing on the Move - Berghahn Books

WritiNg on the Move

Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing

Edited by Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan

272 pages, bibliography and index.

ISBN 9781836953555 $135.00/£104.00 Hb (February 2026)

eISBN 9781836953562 eBook Februray 2026

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.

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

To cite:

Chicot-Feindouno, Clarisse., Mansfield, Charles., and Stothard, Mark., (2026). ‘Chapter 10. Dialogue Journaling in Travel Writing Projects.’ In Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan (eds.). Writing on the Move: Form, Practice and (Im)Mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 185-209. ISBN 9781836953555 eISBN 9781836953562.

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