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This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the 'fashioned' and portrayed selves and 'inner worlds' of travellers – personal memory, autobiographical practices, and lived yet often heavily mediated travel experiences – it opens up perspectives to travel writing in its many modes, that extend both before and after 'lived' travels into their many pre- and afterlives in textual form. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in the cultural history of early modern travel, cultural encounters, and the self- and life writing of early modern mobile people. She is the author of two books, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination (2011) and British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century: 'Slaves' of the Sultan (2022).