04449nam 22007092 450 991096920110332120251117074534.01-383-03846-51-280-44669-20-19-155439-110.1093/oso/9780199247004.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1406782236(StDuBDS)9781383038460(EXLCZ)99246000000000609520011114e20232002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCuriosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 from an antique land /Nigel Leask1st ed.Oxford :Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (x, 338 p. )ill. ;Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2002.0-19-926930-0 0-19-924700-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel -- 1. Cycles of Accumulation, Aesthetics of Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange -- Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Discourse -- Temporalization and the Comparison of Cultures -- 2. Curious Narrative and the Problem of Credit: James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile -- Curiosity and the Dynamics of Scale -- Publication -- Scientific Credit -- At the Nile Source -- The Medici Venus and 'Curious' Masculinity -- The Raw and the Cooked -- Coda -- 3. 'Young Memnon' and Romantic Egyptomania -- Part 1: Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants -- Shelley and the Savants: Volney, Denon, and the Description de l'Egypte -- Part 2: Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' -- 4. Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque -- Modalities of Indian Travel Writing -- The Picturesque Modality -- The Peer and the 'Bishop Sahib': The Indian Travel Narratives of Lord Valentia and Reginald Heber -- Reginald Heber's Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India -- The Radical Anti-Picturesque: James Mill and Victor Jacquemont -- 5. Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India -- Maria Graham: The Oriental Traveller as Female Moralist -- Emma Roberts, Oriental Tourism, and the 'Moonlight Picturesque' -- 'A Pencil instead of a Gun': Fanny Parks and Curiosity -- Colonial Politics and Feminism -- Curiosity, Collecting, Narrating -- 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America: The Impossibility of Personal Narrative -- The Physical Portrait of the Tropics and Aspects of Nature -- Humboldt and the Dispute of the New World -- The Political Essay on New Spain -- Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of 'Popular Curiosity' -- Bibliography.Index.Drawing on original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history and anthropology, this text focuses on the unstable discourse of curiosity to offer a reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics and colonialism in the period.Oxford scholarship online.Travel writingHistory18th centuryTravel writingHistory19th centuryLiteratureukslcTravel writingHistoryTravel writingHistoryLiterature.820.9/355Leask Nigel562917StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910969201103321Curiosity 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