Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard

by David H.T. Scott

Exploring the role of signs in foreign culture encounters as expressed in travel writing, this book focuses on French writers of the last two hundred years. David Scott demonstrates how politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature, are connected to the travel experience in this comprehensive survey of travel writing in French culture.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 2004

About the author

David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual & Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. He has written widely on literature, painting, semiotics and textual/ visual studies, and has organised many international exhibitions on arts and design. He was formerly curator of the Modern Art Collection, Trinity College Dublin (1977-92), a director of the Douglas Hyde Gallery (1979-91) and the organizer of Trinity College’s 1992 400th anniversary exhibition. His interests include gardens, travel and sport, especially athletics and boxing.