List of Figures

1. Traveling Bodies: An Introduction


Nicole Maruo-Schroder, Sarah Schafer-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 Schafer-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-Schroder

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