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A short history of humour in travel writing (2023)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2023). A short history of humour in travel writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 26(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2023.2218048

Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteen... Read More about A short history of humour in travel writing.

What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age (2018)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2018). What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age. Journeys, 19(1), 88-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2018.190105

This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies but age has yet to function as a topic or point of referenc... Read More about What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age.

In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat (2016)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2017). In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(1), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12407

© 2016 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Robert Lovell (1771-1796) is known chiefly as one of the apostles of the ill-fated Pantisocratic emigration scheme conceived by Coleridge and Southey. This essay considers Lovell’s life and work... Read More about In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat.

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2015). Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming. Romanticism, 21(3), 250-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2015.0242

The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.

William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader (2014)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2014). William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader. Review of English Studies, 65(268), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgt039

© The Author 2013. William Beckford (1760-1844) is known chiefly as a collector, bibliophile, Orientalist, and author of the Gothic novel Vathek. In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he pro... Read More about William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader.

Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2005). Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel. Studies in Travel Writing, 9(2), 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2005.9634974

Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.