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Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 : 'from an antique land' / Nigel Leask.
Van Pelt Library PR756.T72 L43 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leask, Nigel, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- British--Foreign countries--History.
- British.
- British--Foreign countries.
- History.
- Ethiopia--Description and travel.
- Ethiopia.
- Mexico--Description and travel.
- Mexico.
- India--Description and travel.
- India.
- Egypt--Description and travel.
- Egypt.
- Antiquities in literature.
- Curiosity in literature.
- Travel in literature.
- Aesthetics, British.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the "antique lands" of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of "curiosity" to offer an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-328) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199247005
- OCLC:
- 47667282
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