Dr Carl Thompson is a former member of CTWS, now at St. Mary's. He is interested in travel writing and travel theory across all periods of English literature, with specialisms in Romantic literature, shipwreck narratives, eighteenth and nineteenth-century women travellers and the relationship between literature and science. Dr Thompson has published monographs on Travel Writing (Routledge, 2011) and The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (OUP, 2007), as well as an edited collection on Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (Routledge, 2013) and a new edition of Sarah Wilson’s The Fruits of Enterprize for the Pickering and Chatto series on Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East (2014). Most recently he has edited The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (2015).
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