Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840: 'From an Antique Land'
Author:   Nigel Leask (, Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199269303


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 February 2004
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Author:   Nigel Leask (, Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9780199269303


ISBN 10:   0199269300
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 February 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel 1: Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange 2: Curious Narratives and the Problem of Credit: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile' 3: 'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania 4: Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque 5: Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India 6: Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity Bibliography Index

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... a thoughtful and wide-ranging book ... Leask has provided an illuminating exploration of the relationship between travel writing, aesthetics and reception. Journeys


... a thoughtful and wide-ranging book ... Leask has provided an illuminating exploration of the relationship between travel writing, aesthetics and reception. * Journeys *


`Review from hardback edition ... addresses the intersections between space and time more fully than any other recent book on Romantic travel ... Leask's detailed study contributes valuably to the body of criticism on Romantic travel literature and, more broadly, to criticism on Romantic conceptions of place and space.' European Romantic Review `Review from previous edition Wide-ranging and discriminating . . . Leask's book is refreshingly comparative, and boldly breaks new ground . . . He unsettles a number of orthodoxies which have cramped our understanding of what happened when Western Europeans travelled outside the boundaries of their own civilization.' David Womersley, Times Literary Supplement `Leask ranges more widely than any of his predecessors . . . Leask admirably rises to the challenge by widening his scrutiny beyond works composed in English . . . an admirable and original synthesis of much rarely explored travel material. ' Studies in Travel Writing


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