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Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 : 'from an antique land' /
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the R...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Practices and narratives of romantic travel.
- Cycles of accumulation, aesthetics of curiosity, and tempted exchange.
- Curious narrative and the problem of credit: James Bruce's Travels to discover the source of the Nile.
- 'Young Memmon' and romantic Egyptomania.
- Indian travel writing and the imperial picturesque.
- Domesticating distance: three women travel writers in British India.
- Alexander von Humboldt and the romantic imagination of America: the impossibility of personal narrative.
- Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the reassertion of 'popular curiosity'.