Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration, c.1815—c.1857

Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration, c.1815—c.1857

Charles W J Withers

Innes M Keighren

Ottobre 1, 2011

Copyright © 2011 The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Journal Article

Charles W J Withers

Innes M Keighren

Journal Article

0020-2754

This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editing of books of travel and exploration published by the leading British publisher, John Murray, the paper examines the redactive relationships between writer and editor-publisher, illustrates the means by which authors sought status in their words and explores how Murray authorised explorers' words and works. In addressing the complex connections between author and editor, manuscript and print, private correspondence and public audience, the paper has implications for researchers in geography interested in the specific relationships between writing and print, and in the general connections between geography, book history and the history of science.

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Ottobre 1, 2011

ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: October 2011 / Copyright © 2011 The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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560-573

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Copyright © 2011 The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Travels into print

Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration, c.1815—c.1857

http://www.jstor.org/stable/23020829

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