Traveling Bodies

Traveling Bodies analyzes the central role bodies have in the experience and mediation of travel. Presenting Asian, European, and American perspectives, the case studies focus on historical and contemporary travel narratives, (new) media (e.g., film, travel apps), surf culture, and tattoo art.

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including 'classic' travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.

Autorentext

Nicole Maruo-Schröder is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, material (food) culture, travel writing, intersectionality, and visual culture. Publications include co-edited collections on Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America (2014), Space, Place, and Narrative (2016), and Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2018) as well as a monograph on Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature (2006). A current book project focuses on literature and consumption.

Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research centers on women, gender, sexuality studies, and medical humanities. She is the author of The Gendered Body: Female Sanctity, Gender Hybridity and the Body in Women's Hagiography (2016) and co-editor of Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture (2020) and Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture (2023).

Uta Schaffers is Professor of German Literature and Didactics at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her main research areas include travel writing (various articles and the co-edited volume (Off) the Beaten Track? Normierungen und Kanonisierungen des Reisens; 2018) with special focus on Japan (Konstruktionen der Fremde. Erfahren, verschriftlicht und erlesen am Beispiel Japan; 2006) and the Swiss travel writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach (see the editions of Schwarzenbach's works), traveling bodies, and East-Asia in literature, as well as economics and literature.

Zusammenfassung
Traveling Bodies analyzes the central role bodies have in the experience and mediation of travel. Presenting Asian, European, and American perspectives, the case studies focus on historical and contemporary travel narratives, (new) media (e.g., film, travel apps), surf culture, and tattoo art.

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1. Traveling Bodies: An Introduction ** Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers

   I: The Body as Concept and Metaphor

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

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

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

   II: Other Bodies

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

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

7. "The most dirtiest children": Spectacles of Otherness on the American Frontier Nicole Maruo-Schröder ** III: Crossing Borders: The Body and its Liminal Zones

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

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

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

    IV: Mobility, Perception, Experience

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

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

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

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

Index