Tim Hannigan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Hannigan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Hannigan |
| SIGNATURE | HANNIGAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0141-3010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing on the Move
At the Brink of the Abyss
A further complication introduced by Leigh Fermor’s inclusion in the text of excerpts from his youthful journals – notionally unedited but in fact partially fictionalised, as revealed by an examination of the archives. Though typically regarded as nonfiction, A Time of Gifts is, the article argues, a highly ambiguous text for which neither ‘fact convention’ nor ‘aesthetic convention’ are adequate modes of reception
Interview with Rory MacLean
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dorset on 2 October 2017, and updated by email in November 2020, Rory MacLean discusses his long travel writing career, from the publication of Stalin’s Nose in 1992, to Pravda Ha Ha in 2019. He explains how his background in the film industry informed his approach to travel writing, in the use of dialogue and character. He discusses his practice of using fictional devices in nonfiction books, and its potentia…
Papers from the 2019 Borders and Crossings conference
This introduction outlines the background and contexts of this special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from the Borders and Crossings 2019 conference held at the University of Leicester on 4–6 July 2019. The introduction details the history of this long-running conference series, and its previous role as a source of travel writing studies publications. As the conference organisers, the authors explain the rationales which guided…
A voice in the wilderness
This article frames James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life (2015) – an account of farming in the English Lake District – as a contemporary “travellee polemic”, using a term developed by Wendy Bracewell (2015) to describe ripostes penned by European travellees to denigrating travellers’ accounts of their own home-places in the eighteenth century. It argues that The Shepherd’s Life is similarly a riposte to outsider accounts of the Lake District, inclu…
Interview with Samanth Subramanian
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dublin on 23 November 2017, Samanth Subramanian discusses his work as a journalist and travel writer. He considers the distinctions between, and intersections of, journalism and travel writing in his books, Following Fish (2012) and This Divided Island (2015), and his affiliation with the American long-form journalism tradition. He discusses the ethical challenges involved in writing about the lives of those a…
A Hideous and a Wicked Country”
This article focuses on travel accounts about Cornwall from “the long nineteenth century,” including those by Wilkie Collins and W.H. Hudson. The article traces a shift from a general hostility to “deformed” Cornish topography to an almost universal celebration of its “rugged beauty,” coupled with a consistent tendency to exoticize local culture, and considers the changing impetus of this othering—from an integrationist ideology at the outset, to…
Interview with Nick Danziger
In conversation with Tim Hannigan at his home in Monaco on 17 March 2017, Nick Danziger discusses his work as a travel writer, photographer, and documentary maker. He explains that his first book, the bestselling Danziger’s Travels (1987), was written with no prior knowledge of travel writing as a genre, then goes on to reveal the influences that played on his later works. He reflects on the reasons for the shift from his debut, with its central …
Beyond control
The “upas tree” is one of the most enduring European myths about Southeast Asia. Accounts of a tree so toxic that it renders the surrounding atmosphere deadly can first be identified in fourteenth-century journey narratives covering what is now Indonesia. But while most other such apocrypha vanished from later European accounts of the region, the upas myth remained prominent and in fact became progressively more elaborate and fantastical, culmina…
Interview with Patrick Barkham
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Norwich on 10 March 2017, Patrick Barkham discusses his work and the relationship between the so-called “new nature writing” and the wider travel writing genre. Reflecting on his own changing approaches across his four books, he talks of his anxieties about representing people in the “peripheral” places he visits as a travel writer, and considers the parallels with colonial travel writing identifiable in some …
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Interview with Patrick Barkham
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Norwich on 10 March 2017, Patrick Barkham discusses his work and the relationship between the so-called “new nature writing” and the wider travel writing genre. Reflecting on his own changing approaches across his four books, he talks of his anxieties about representing people in the “peripheral” places he visits as a travel writer, and considers the parallels with colonial travel writing identifiable in some …
Interview with Nick Danziger
In conversation with Tim Hannigan at his home in Monaco on 17 March 2017, Nick Danziger discusses his work as a travel writer, photographer, and documentary maker. He explains that his first book, the bestselling Danziger’s Travels (1987), was written with no prior knowledge of travel writing as a genre, then goes on to reveal the influences that played on his later works. He reflects on the reasons for the shift from his debut, with its central …
Beyond control
The “upas tree” is one of the most enduring European myths about Southeast Asia. Accounts of a tree so toxic that it renders the surrounding atmosphere deadly can first be identified in fourteenth-century journey narratives covering what is now Indonesia. But while most other such apocrypha vanished from later European accounts of the region, the upas myth remained prominent and in fact became progressively more elaborate and fantastical, culmina…
A voice in the wilderness
This article frames James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life (2015) – an account of farming in the English Lake District – as a contemporary “travellee polemic”, using a term developed by Wendy Bracewell (2015) to describe ripostes penned by European travellees to denigrating travellers’ accounts of their own home-places in the eighteenth century. It argues that The Shepherd’s Life is similarly a riposte to outsider accounts of the Lake District, inclu…
Interview with Samanth Subramanian
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dublin on 23 November 2017, Samanth Subramanian discusses his work as a journalist and travel writer. He considers the distinctions between, and intersections of, journalism and travel writing in his books, Following Fish (2012) and This Divided Island (2015), and his affiliation with the American long-form journalism tradition. He discusses the ethical challenges involved in writing about the lives of those a…
A Hideous and a Wicked Country”
This article focuses on travel accounts about Cornwall from “the long nineteenth century,” including those by Wilkie Collins and W.H. Hudson. The article traces a shift from a general hostility to “deformed” Cornish topography to an almost universal celebration of its “rugged beauty,” coupled with a consistent tendency to exoticize local culture, and considers the changing impetus of this othering—from an integrationist ideology at the outset, to…
Interview with Rory MacLean
In conversation with Tim Hannigan in Dorset on 2 October 2017, and updated by email in November 2020, Rory MacLean discusses his long travel writing career, from the publication of Stalin’s Nose in 1992, to Pravda Ha Ha in 2019. He explains how his background in the film industry informed his approach to travel writing, in the use of dialogue and character. He discusses his practice of using fictional devices in nonfiction books, and its potentia…
Papers from the 2019 Borders and Crossings conference
This introduction outlines the background and contexts of this special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from the Borders and Crossings 2019 conference held at the University of Leicester on 4–6 July 2019. The introduction details the history of this long-running conference series, and its previous role as a source of travel writing studies publications. As the conference organisers, the authors explain the rationales which guided…
At the Brink of the Abyss
A further complication introduced by Leigh Fermor’s inclusion in the text of excerpts from his youthful journals – notionally unedited but in fact partially fictionalised, as revealed by an examination of the archives. Though typically regarded as nonfiction, A Time of Gifts is, the article argues, a highly ambiguous text for which neither ‘fact convention’ nor ‘aesthetic convention’ are adequate modes of reception
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