Creative and Non-fiction Writing during Isolation and Confine... - 9781032152509

Taylor & Francis

Creative and Non-fiction Writing during Isolation and ConfinementImaginative Travel, Prison, Shipwrecks, Pandemics, and War\nAuthor(s): Ben Stubbs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032152509, 978-1032152509\nSynopsis\nThis book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters, and situations that have arisen from these states throughout history. It offers a deeper understanding of how others have found inspiration, purpose, and clarity in these difficult and challenging conditions.\n\nBy traversing the narratives of writers, wanderers, mariners, prisoners, recluses, and soldiers, this book offers writers and readers a chance to re-think the parameters of their own circumstances. Exploring a broad range of themes, from writing during a pandemic (COVID-19), travel writing, writing from incarceration, and writing within war and conflict zones, each chapter w.