04543nam 2200793 450 991045597290332120210209200838.01-280-44669-20-19-155439-1(CKB)2460000000006095(MH)008848021-6(SSID)ssj0000293301(PQKBManifestationID)12098474(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293301(PQKBWorkID)10274598(PQKB)11375682(MiAaPQ)EBC5583939(MiAaPQ)EBC4964057(Au-PeEL)EBL4964057(CaONFJC)MIL44669(OCoLC)1027156473(EXLCZ)99246000000000609520010717d2002 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCuriosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 'from an antique land' /Nigel LeaskOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,2002.1 online resource (x, 338 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-926930-0 0-19-924700-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of creditworthiness, and the nebulous epistemologicial claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing.; Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish prose literature18th centuryHistory and criticismBritishForeign countriesHistoryTravel writingHistoryAntiquities in literatureCuriosity in literatureTravel in literatureAesthetics, BritishEthiopiaDescription and travelMexicoDescription and travelIndiaDescription and travelEgyptDescription and travelElectronic books.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.English prose literatureHistory and criticism.English prose literatureHistory and criticism.BritishHistory.Travel writingHistory.Antiquities in literature.Curiosity in literature.Travel in literature.Aesthetics, British.820.9/355Leask Nigel1958-562917MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455972903321Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-18401099584UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress