Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 : 'from an antique land'

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...

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Main Author: Leask, Nigel, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
British > Foreign countries > History.
Travel writing > History.
Antiquities in literature.
Curiosity in literature.
Travel in literature.
Aesthetics, British.
Ethiopia > Description and travel.
Mexico > Description and travel.
India > Description and travel.
Egypt > Description and travel.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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'.

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