Travels into print

Authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration, c .1815– c .1857

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8962073
AutoresCharles W J Withers, Carl Withers (0000-0001-5219-5653, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia), Innes M Keighren (0000-0002-4791-6820, Royal Holloway University of London)
Año2011
Volumen36
Número4
Páginas560-573
Fecha de publicación2011-03-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00437.x
OpenAlexW1501059272
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas57

This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editing of books of travel and exploration published by the leading British publisher, John Murray, the paper examines the redactive relationships between writer and editor‐publisher, illustrates the means by which authors sought status in their words and explores how Murray authorised explorers’ words and works. In addressing the complex connections between author and editor, manuscript and print, private correspondence and public audience, the paper has implications for researchers in geography interested in the specific relationships between writing and print, and in the general connections between geography, book history and the history of science

Archaeology · Art · Composition (language · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Historical geography · Human geography · Literature · Materialism · Media studies · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Travel writing · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · History of Science and Natural History · Travel Writing and Literature