Description:
Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of 'movement' and what counts as 'travel writing' in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.
Brief description:
Tim Hannigan is Assistant Lecturer in Writing and Literature at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo, Ireland. He is also an experienced travel writer and the author of several books including The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey (Apollo, 2023). His research focusses on ethical issues in contemporary and nineteenth-century travel writing. His work has been published in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journeys, Terrae Incognitae, Studies in Travel Writing and various edited collections.