I have contributed a chapter on 'British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary' to the volume The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life edited by Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos and published by Indiana University Press this month. Focusing on examples from the late eighteenth century onwards, my essay considers not only the travel diary but the uses of the diary in other forms of travel narrative, for example to provide a sense of authority, authenticity or immediacy. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the volume and to thinking further about the subject for future work.
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Tim Youngs
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