LEADER 04539nam 2200793 450 001 9910780607703321 005 20230607223313.0 010 $a1-383-03846-5 010 $a1-280-44669-2 010 $a0-19-155439-1 035 $a(CKB)2460000000006095 035 $a(MH)008848021-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293301 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12098474 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293301 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274598 035 $a(PQKB)11375682 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5583939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4964057 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4964057 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44669 035 $a(OCoLC)1027156473 035 $a(EXLCZ)992460000000006095 100 $a20010717d2002 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCuriosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 $e'from an antique land' /$fNigel Leask 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 338 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-926930-0 311 $a0-19-924700-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBritish$zForeign countries$xHistory 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aAntiquities in literature 606 $aCuriosity in literature 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aAesthetics, British 607 $aEthiopia$xDescription and travel 607 $aMexico$xDescription and travel 607 $aIndia$xDescription and travel 607 $aEgypt$xDescription and travel 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBritish$xHistory. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 615 0$aAntiquities in literature. 615 0$aCuriosity in literature. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aAesthetics, British. 676 $a820.9/355 700 $aLeask$b Nigel$f1958-$0562917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780607703321 996 $aCuriosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840$91099584 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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