Contents

pp v-v

List of Illustrations

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-xii

Introduction: The Wonder that Came Later

pp 1-12

I - ‘Horizon of expectations’: Travels in Literary History

pp 13-14

1 - A Question of Form: Genre and the Journey

pp 15-22

2 - ‘An End to Journeying’: Travel and its Discontents in Late Modernity

pp 23-44

3 - Forms of Recovery and Renewal: Travels in Contemporary Literature

pp 45-56

II - Readings in Contemporary Travellers' Tales of Wonder

pp 57-58

4 - Bruce Chatwin and the ‘modern WONDER VOYAGE’: In Patagonia (1977)

pp 59-98

5 - V. S. Naipaul and the ‘gift of wonder’: The Enigma of Arrival (1987)

pp 99-135

6 - W. G. Sebald's Travels through ‘das unentdeckte Land’: Die Ringe des Saturn (1995)

pp 136-174

Afterword: The ‘unlimited vicissitudes of travelling’

pp 175-177

Bibliography

pp 178-196

Index

pp 197-202