Paul Smethurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Smethurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Smethurst |
| SIGNATURE | SMETHURST P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Invisible Bicycle
Reviewed by: Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines ed. by Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus Paul Smethurst (bio) Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines. Edited by Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xii+282. $133. The theme of this collection of eight essays on bicycle history is the relative invisibility since the rise of automobility of both the bicycle as a socio-c…
The Bicycle — Towards a Global History
This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess it
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Crossings
The bicycle first appeared in China, Japan and the European colonies of Asia and Africa between 1880 and 1920. As an exotic foreign object, it was often regarded with suspicion and ridicule; as a representative of an imported technology, it also met with resistance when it was seen as the agent of a foreign imperialist culture. In time, the bicycle would overcome these cultural obstacles and become absorbed into local societies, transformed into …
The Geocritical Imagination
Research Article| March 01 2014 The Geocritical Imagination Paul Smethurst Paul Smethurst University of Hong Kong [email protected] Paul Smethurst is Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches travel writing, geocriticism, and the contemporary novel. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope (2000), Travel Writing and the Natural World (2013), and The Bicycle in History (forthcoming). He i…
A flâneur on wheels? Bicycle mobility and the sociological gaze in Edward Thomas's In Pursuit of Spring
This essay assesses Edward Thomas's In Pursuit of Spring (1914) as a bicycle travelogue, which anticipates the modern sociological gaze. It argues that bicycle mobility is critical to how that gaze is experienced and mediated, and contrasts this mode with urban flânerie and other forms of pedestrian travel. In extending his critical gaze in a sweep across Southern England, Thomas alludes to earlier journeys by Cobbett, Jefferies and Hazlitt, yet …
Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768–1840
Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the ef
Natural Order
In the late eighteenth century, theoretical understanding of the natural world advanced as accumulated empirical knowledge was used to develop taxonomies and models, and the microscopic analysis of natural phenomena revealed forms, structures and processes invisible to the naked eye. Greater theoretical knowledge led to further experimentation in such practices as cross-pollination, acclimatisation and soil husbandry. These led to economic advant…
Travel writing, form, and empire
Asian Crossings
This chapter examines the political implications of the revisions made to Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird. The idealization of the Ainu people, the culminating northern point of her journey, consigns them to historical defeat, victims of the racial struggle for existence. In particular, it investigates how editorial changes alter the character of the traveler. It also shows how representations of Japan are accordingly modified. Finally,…
Asian Crossings
This book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of Japan Fairs in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationship…
Travels in Globality
Hong Kong is a postcolonial city and a postmodern city, its present shape (or lack of it) the result of foreshortened historical processes. In little more than 150 years, it has been subject to colonialism, occupation, migrations and globalisation. Its new masters in China are, in one of history's great about-turns, in the thrall of multi-national capitalism. Writing about a city where history is so much 'in-the-making' is bound to be challenging…
Short Reviews
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Short Reviews
Postmodern blackness and unbelonging in the works of Caryl Phillips
Travels in Globality
Hong Kong is a postcolonial city and a postmodern city, its present shape (or lack of it) the result of foreshortened historical processes. In little more than 150 years, it has been subject to colonialism, occupation, migrations and globalisation. Its new masters in China are, in one of history's great about-turns, in the thrall of multi-national capitalism. Writing about a city where history is so much 'in-the-making' is bound to be challenging…
Asian Crossings
This chapter examines the political implications of the revisions made to Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird. The idealization of the Ainu people, the culminating northern point of her journey, consigns them to historical defeat, victims of the racial struggle for existence. In particular, it investigates how editorial changes alter the character of the traveler. It also shows how representations of Japan are accordingly modified. Finally,…
Asian Crossings
This book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of Japan Fairs in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationship…
Travel writing, form, and empire
Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768–1840
Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the ef
Natural Order
In the late eighteenth century, theoretical understanding of the natural world advanced as accumulated empirical knowledge was used to develop taxonomies and models, and the microscopic analysis of natural phenomena revealed forms, structures and processes invisible to the naked eye. Greater theoretical knowledge led to further experimentation in such practices as cross-pollination, acclimatisation and soil husbandry. These led to economic advant…
The Geocritical Imagination
Research Article| March 01 2014 The Geocritical Imagination Paul Smethurst Paul Smethurst University of Hong Kong [email protected] Paul Smethurst is Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches travel writing, geocriticism, and the contemporary novel. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope (2000), Travel Writing and the Natural World (2013), and The Bicycle in History (forthcoming). He i…
A flâneur on wheels? Bicycle mobility and the sociological gaze in Edward Thomas's In Pursuit of Spring
This essay assesses Edward Thomas's In Pursuit of Spring (1914) as a bicycle travelogue, which anticipates the modern sociological gaze. It argues that bicycle mobility is critical to how that gaze is experienced and mediated, and contrasts this mode with urban flânerie and other forms of pedestrian travel. In extending his critical gaze in a sweep across Southern England, Thomas alludes to earlier journeys by Cobbett, Jefferies and Hazlitt, yet …
The Bicycle — Towards a Global History
This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess it
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Crossings
The bicycle first appeared in China, Japan and the European colonies of Asia and Africa between 1880 and 1920. As an exotic foreign object, it was often regarded with suspicion and ridicule; as a representative of an imported technology, it also met with resistance when it was seen as the agent of a foreign imperialist culture. In time, the bicycle would overcome these cultural obstacles and become absorbed into local societies, transformed into …
Invisible Bicycle
Reviewed by: Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines ed. by Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus Paul Smethurst (bio) Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines. Edited by Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xii+282. $133. The theme of this collection of eight essays on bicycle history is the relative invisibility since the rise of automobility of both the bicycle as a socio-c…
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