Haunted journeys : desire and transgression in European travel writing / Dennis Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Dennis, 1933- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, European.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Authors, European--Travel.

Authors, European.

Travel writing--History.

Travel writing.

Exoticism in literature.

Travel in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are shown to give rise to rich and complex works, in which individual psychic investments frequently subvert an inherited cultural discourse. In exploring the various uses and pleasures of travel, Porter interprets it as a transgressive activity animated by desire and haunted by different forms of guilt.Broad in its historical scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender criticism, and the social history of ideas. Texts analyzed include works by Boswell, Diderot, Bougainville, Cook, Stendhal, Darwin, Flaubert, Freud, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Gide, Lvi-Strauss, Barthes, and V. S. Naipaul.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: Enlightenment Europe and Its Globe

I. Uses of the Grand Tour: Boswell and His Contemporaries

II. The Philosophe as Traveler: Diderot

III. Circumnavigation: Bougainville and Cook

PART TWO: Romantic Transgressions

IV. Travel for Travel's Sake: Stendhal

V. Darwin's Passionate Voyage

VI. The Perverse Traveler: Flaubert in the Orient

PART THREE: Europe and Its Discontents

VII. Freud and Travel

VIII. The Other Italy: D. H. Lawrence

IX. Political Witness: Τ. E. Lawrence and Gide

X. Travel for Science's Sake: Malinowski and Levi-Strauss

PART FOUR: Postcolonial Dilemmas

XI. Writing the Orient: Barthes

XII. Originary Displacement and the Writer's Burden: V. S. Naipaul

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781400861330

1400861330

OCLC:

1024015709