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Travel Writers Online magazine blog is delighted to announce the publication of WORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM edited by Sílvia Quinteiro and Maria José Marques WORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM   W ORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM has brought together many authors and academics who work in the area of literary tourism knowledge to provide researchers with a dictionary of terms and definitions to engage with this field of study.  The publication is now free to download.  "As part of the project, 40 experts were asked to produce a set of over 60 inputs, each defining the concept in their own way. Considering that future readers will have a wide range of backgrounds, the authors were asked to write their entries as a starting point for further research on the topic or topics to which they refer, and so suggestions for further reading are also included. This book is therefore a meeting place for researchers from around the world, wh...

Architecture and the French Novel Second Empire architecture and the great department stores are a powerful visitor attraction for Paris in the twenty-first century. Many of the buildings of this period are extravagant mixtures of architectural style using references to gothic but with new building technologies, for example the iron girder, which reflect both France's imperial status and its material gains.  The French empire included both Vietnam and Algeria during this period, indeed the 1885 Maupassant novel, Bel Ami begins with its main character, Duroy, returning from military service in Algeria , and later in the story, land speculation in Algeria contributes to his wealth. The novel appears in English as The History of a Scoundrel in 1903 and gives a description of the Folies Bergère , a visitor attraction which had only opened in May 1869.  At the time of writing a further film adaptation of Bel Ami has been released (2012) directed by Declan Donnellan, demonstr...

Literary Geographies of Brittany and Paris   Satori in Paris is Jack Kerouac’s account of his fieldwork research in Brittany and Paris.   The book continues to fascinate publishers, so much so that Penguin have recently reissued an edition in their Modern Classics series.   It continues, too, to inspire travel writers, travel bloggers and carnettistes thanks to its autobiographical approach coupled with detailed observation of the phenomenology of the writer’s experiences.   For me, in my search for French, Kerouac’s carnet de voyage delights because it is gently laced with French words like tiny sips of strong black coffee through a Barthesian foam of milky phonemes.   But later on, a neurosis forms in the text and it begins to desire me, as I attend to it and wait for Satori.  Please Follow. You will need to copy our url address first, which is travelwritersonline.blogspot.com

Keats and Teignmouth - Literary Tourism in Devon.  If you are planning to visit the seaside town of Teignmouth in Devon be sure to take some poems by John Keats with you. Keats stayed here in 1818, just over 200 years ago, and leaves us some journaling in his correspondence to set the scene: 1818 letter from John Keats: March 13th 1818, to Benjamin Bailey – you may say what you will of Devonshire:  the truth is, it is a splashy, rainy,  misty snowy, foggy, haily floody,  muddy, slipshod county the hills are very beautiful, when you get a sight of ‘em the Primroses are out, but then you are in the Cliffs are of a fine deep Colour,  but then the Clouds are continually vieing with them Two houses down towards Rat Island claim to be the place that Keats rented when he lived here. Of course, he could easily have rented them both for himself and family. Number 36 and the house called 'Old Place', on Northumberland Place, Rat Island, Teignmouth, South Devon UK. It...