Traveling Bodies

Traveling Bodies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice

Schaefer-Althaus, Sarah; Schaffers, Uta; Maruo-Schroeder, Nicole

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

262

Mole

9781032364117

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List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments






Traveling Bodies: An Introduction
Nicole Maruo-Schroeder, Sarah Schaefer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers

I: The Body as Concept and Metaphor




The Scientist-Traveler and the Woman-as Land: Sexual Topographies in A New Description of Merryland (1741)
Sarah Schaefer-Althaus




From Facts to Physicality: Body Concepts in German Travel Writing Around 1800
Sonja Klein




Motherhood and the Embodied Traveler in Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Elizabeth Zold

II: Other Bodies




Beasts on Board: Traveling Animals and Pacific Voyages in the First Two Ages of Exploration
Mira Shah




Mary Wollstonecraft and the Body of her Letters, or: The Traveler Lost and Found in Scandinavia
Michael Meyer




"The most dirtiest children": Spectacles of Otherness on the American Frontier
Nicole Maruo-Schroeder

III: Crossing Borders: The Body and its Liminal Zones




"My condition gets worse day by day": Controlling Traveling Bodies on the Move in Edo-Period Japan
Andreas Niehaus




"The 'Food Question' is said to be the most important one for all travelers": Eating in Travel Writing
Uta Schaffers




Going Undercover? Female Bodies and Clothes under Scrutiny in Travel Literature
Sofie Decock

IV: Mobility, Perception, Experience




Surfing Wanderlust: Surf Tripping Bodies as Cultural Bearers
Anne Barjolin-Smith




Traveling Bodies in Film: Embodied Encounters and Negotiating Selves
Anne von Petersdorff-Campen




Tattooed Cartographies and the Displaced Body in an Age of Political Conflict
Karly Etz




Strolling through the City on a Self-Guided Tour: Embodied Engagement with the Urban Space

Nora Winsky

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perception;embodied practice;travel;mobility;body;Follow;Travel Writings;Mary Wollstonecraft;Wollstonecraft;Intercultural Encounters;Travel Texts;Self-Guided Tour;Ella Maillart;Vice Versa;Surf Trip;Travel Report;Face To Face;Violating;Montagu;American Surfers;Tattooed;Omnipresent;Surf Tourism;Personas;Native American Tribes;Wo;Wander;USA;Haptic Visuality