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 ...
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