| Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: `From an Antique Land' Revised Edition Contributor(s): Leask, Nigel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199269300 ISBN-13: 9780199269303 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $59.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |