LEADER 04449nam 22007092 450 001 9910823380103321 005 20240508200104.0 010 $a1-383-03846-5 010 $a1-280-44669-2 010 $a0-19-155439-1 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780199247004.001.0001 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(OCoLC)1406782236 035 $a(StDuBDS)9781383038460 035 $a(EXLCZ)992460000000006095 100 $a20011114e20232002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCuriosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 $efrom an antique land /$fNigel Leask 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 338 p. )$cill. ; 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2002. 311 $a0-19-926930-0 311 $a0-19-924700-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aIndex. 330 8 $aDrawing on original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history and anthropology, this text focuses on the unstable discourse of curiosity to offer a reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics and colonialism in the period. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature$2ukslc 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 7$aLiterature. 676 $a820.9/355 700 $aLeask$b Nigel$0562917 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823380103321 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