Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-196) and index.
Contents:
'Horizon of expectations' : travels in literary history. A question of form : genre and the journey -- 'An end to journeying : travel and its discontents in late modernity -- Forms of recovery and renewal : travels in contemporary literature -- Readings in contemporary travelers' tales of wonder. Bruce Chatwin and the 'modern WONDER VOYAGE' : in Patagonia (1977) -- V.S. Naipaul and the 'gift of wonder' : the enigma of arrival (1987) -- W.G. Sebald's travels through 'das unentdeckte Land' : Die Ringe des Saturn (1995).
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