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This study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel by exploring wonder in contemporary travel writing. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their tales are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world – including its most troubling histories – with a sense of wonder.
Keywords: Travel, Wonder, Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748675463 |
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2013 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748675463.001.0001 |
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