Tim Youngs
Biographic Data
| ID | 94064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Youngs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Youngs |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNGS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9943-628X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation 1835–1910
Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part I Vol 2: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East
Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion 1770–1835
Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion 1770-1835
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery
The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
This chapter seeks to expand an understanding of ‘expatriate’ by examining the defining choice to live elsewhere as one guided not only by aesthetic concerns but also by an ethical impulse to remake one’s life in accordance with a particular vision of ‘the good life’; in other words, expatriation as a deliberate act of displacement and a long-term process of self-transformation centred on the question, ‘How should I live?’ Susanna Moodie’s mid-ni…
Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing
Portrait
Interview with Nancy Campbell
In an interview conducted on 29 November 2018 at Nottingham Trent University and followed up by email on 29 March 2019, Nancy Campbell talks to Tim Youngs about her book The Library of Ice (2018). The book is a cultural history of ice, which draws on Campbell’s experience of travel in the Arctic and elsewhere since 2010, and brings to a close several years of publishing projects on the region. Campbell discusses the relationship between travel, s…
Writing and Race
Introduction: Context and Motif
In this chapter, the author outlines some of the work that has influenced many of the contributors. He focuses on ideas which, though still important, have been much less widely circulated. These ideas are mostly from or about anthropology and its written practice, ethnography. The fact of written representation is crucial: writing inscribes the unequal power relationship between the observer and the observed that has so marked the discipline. In…
Interview with Sara Wheeler
In conversation with Tim Youngs at Nottingham's Bromley House Library on 11 May 2013, Sara Wheeler discusses her own travel writing and the genre more generally. Wheeler talks of travellers and writers whom she admires, travelling and writing as a woman, the question of moral responsibility, the visual quality of her writing, and the need to be faithful to one's voice. Comparing her earlier work on the Antarctic with her more recent writing on th…
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it comprises and is best unde…
Grace and Grit: Motorcycle Dispatches from Early Twentieth Century Women Adventurers, by William M. Murphy; An Anthology of Early British Motorcycle Travel Literature, edited by Tim Fransen
Travel writing and New Zealand: An introduction
New Zealand is a country that has inspired writers and explorers on a vast scale that is yet to be fully appreciated. Considering the relatively small size of its population, New Zealand has produc
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer , by Tim Jeal
Reviewed by: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Tim Youngs (bio) Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, by Tim Jeal; pp. xx + 570. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, $38.00, $18.00 paper, £25.00,£9.99 paper. Tim Jeal's revisionist biography of Henry Morton Stanley has won plaudits and been scorned for its attempts to restore the reputation of the man generally regarded as both the most …
Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces
In his narrative of Central African exploration, Through the Dark Continent (1878), Henry Morton Stanley tells his companion Frank Pocock, who was soon to drown on their adventure
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces
Interview with William Dalrymple
In conversation with Tim Youngs at the Lowdham Book Festival, Nottinghamshire, on 13 June 2004 and at his home in West London on 6 September 2004, William Dalrymple discusses his work and compares his travel writing with other forms of writing. Dalrymple talks about the influences on, the composition and structure of, and the motivation behind his writing. He sees as a vital role of the modern travel writer the uncovering of complex local realiti…
Interview with Robyn Davidson
In an interview with Tim Youngs, conducted on 8 July 2004, Robyn Davidson discusses her relationship to Australia and her peripatetic existence, which she compares with the movement of traditional nomads. Refusing an easy identification with them, she nevertheless admits having a romantic feeling for their lifeways. Modern forms of post-industrial rootlessness, she acknowledges, are not the same as ancient forms of nomadism, which are disappearin…
The Cambridge companion to travel writing
Interview With Gary Younge
Why is that white man pointing that thing at me?” Representing the Maasai
The feminist anthropologist Henrietta Moore has noted that “the interpretation of ‘other cultures’ has often been likened in the anthropological literature to a process of translation.” If one accepts that interpretation and translation are closely linked (though there may be some subtle distinctions to be drawn between them), then the comparison described by Moore may be illustrated with statements from two of the most prominent of anthropologic…
Short Reviews
Buttons and Souls: Some Thoughts on Commodities and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
(1997). BUTTONS AND SOULS: SOME THOUGHTS ON COMMODITIES AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING. Studies in Travel Writing: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 117-140
The Connection Between Things
Writing Africa in the 1980s: Travels With the Doctor, the Film Maker and the Anthropologist's Wife
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Debate On the Union Of Insurgent Sociologists Or Whatever
Morality and ideology: The arranged marriage in contemporary British‐Asian drama
Writing Africa in the 1980s: Travels With the Doctor, the Film Maker and the Anthropologist's Wife
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Short notices
Urs Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non‐European Cultures, 1492–1800, translated by Ritchie Robertson (1989), 215 (Polity Press, Oxford, £25.00). Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (1989), xvi + 227 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £24.95). David Morse, England's Time of Crisis from Shakespeare to Milton. A Cultural History (1989). vii + ‐391…
Framed in the doorway: The Observer and the `Yemeni brides' affair
Victorian Britain and 'Primitive' Africa: Figures and Tools of Imperialism
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The Connection Between Things
Visualizing Africa
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Annie E. Coombes , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994, 280 pp., 112 b. & w. illus., £35.00 The Red Fez: Art and Spirit Possession in Africa by Fritz W. Kramer , translated by Malcolm Green , London: Verso, 1993, 292 pp., 52 b. & w. illus., £18.95 African Art in Transit by Christopher B. Steiner , Cambridge and New York: …
Buttons and Souls: Some Thoughts on Commodities and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
(1997). BUTTONS AND SOULS: SOME THOUGHTS ON COMMODITIES AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING. Studies in Travel Writing: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 117-140
Short Reviews
Why is that white man pointing that thing at me?” Representing the Maasai
The feminist anthropologist Henrietta Moore has noted that “the interpretation of ‘other cultures’ has often been likened in the anthropological literature to a process of translation.” If one accepts that interpretation and translation are closely linked (though there may be some subtle distinctions to be drawn between them), then the comparison described by Moore may be illustrated with statements from two of the most prominent of anthropologic…
The Cambridge companion to travel writing
Interview With Gary Younge
Interview with William Dalrymple
In conversation with Tim Youngs at the Lowdham Book Festival, Nottinghamshire, on 13 June 2004 and at his home in West London on 6 September 2004, William Dalrymple discusses his work and compares his travel writing with other forms of writing. Dalrymple talks about the influences on, the composition and structure of, and the motivation behind his writing. He sees as a vital role of the modern travel writer the uncovering of complex local realiti…
Interview with Robyn Davidson
In an interview with Tim Youngs, conducted on 8 July 2004, Robyn Davidson discusses her relationship to Australia and her peripatetic existence, which she compares with the movement of traditional nomads. Refusing an easy identification with them, she nevertheless admits having a romantic feeling for their lifeways. Modern forms of post-industrial rootlessness, she acknowledges, are not the same as ancient forms of nomadism, which are disappearin…
Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces
In his narrative of Central African exploration, Through the Dark Continent (1878), Henry Morton Stanley tells his companion Frank Pocock, who was soon to drown on their adventure
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer , by Tim Jeal
Reviewed by: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Tim Youngs (bio) Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, by Tim Jeal; pp. xx + 570. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, $38.00, $18.00 paper, £25.00,£9.99 paper. Tim Jeal's revisionist biography of Henry Morton Stanley has won plaudits and been scorned for its attempts to restore the reputation of the man generally regarded as both the most …
Travel writing and New Zealand: An introduction
New Zealand is a country that has inspired writers and explorers on a vast scale that is yet to be fully appreciated. Considering the relatively small size of its population, New Zealand has produc
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it comprises and is best unde…
Grace and Grit: Motorcycle Dispatches from Early Twentieth Century Women Adventurers, by William M. Murphy; An Anthology of Early British Motorcycle Travel Literature, edited by Tim Fransen
Interview with Sara Wheeler
In conversation with Tim Youngs at Nottingham's Bromley House Library on 11 May 2013, Sara Wheeler discusses her own travel writing and the genre more generally. Wheeler talks of travellers and writers whom she admires, travelling and writing as a woman, the question of moral responsibility, the visual quality of her writing, and the need to be faithful to one's voice. Comparing her earlier work on the Antarctic with her more recent writing on th…
Writing and Race
Introduction: Context and Motif
In this chapter, the author outlines some of the work that has influenced many of the contributors. He focuses on ideas which, though still important, have been much less widely circulated. These ideas are mostly from or about anthropology and its written practice, ethnography. The fact of written representation is crucial: writing inscribes the unequal power relationship between the observer and the observed that has so marked the discipline. In…
Interview with Nancy Campbell
In an interview conducted on 29 November 2018 at Nottingham Trent University and followed up by email on 29 March 2019, Nancy Campbell talks to Tim Youngs about her book The Library of Ice (2018). The book is a cultural history of ice, which draws on Campbell’s experience of travel in the Arctic and elsewhere since 2010, and brings to a close several years of publishing projects on the region. Campbell discusses the relationship between travel, s…
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