Bringing the world to early modern Europe : travel accounts and their audiences /
This volume contains five essays and a critical introduction presenting the most recent interpretations of travelers and their narratives in the early modern world, with particular attention to the relationship between the act of travel and descriptions of it. The articles here focus on England, Fra...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Colección: | European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004222830.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making Something of It: Questions of Value in the Early English Travel Collection / Mary C. Fuller
- Reading Travels in the Culture of Curiosity: Thevenot's Collection of Voyages / Nicholas Dew
- The Construction of an Authoritative Text: Peter Kolb's Description of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century / Anne Good
- Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery / Jonathan D. Sassi
- Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact? / Joan-Pau Rubies.