English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring genres / / Jean Vivies ; translated by Claire Davison

• Autore: Viviès Jean
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (141 pages)
• Disciplina: 828/.50809355
• Soggetto topico: Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism; English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; British - Foreign countries - History - 18th century; Travel writing - History - 18th century; Literary form - History - 18th century
• Note generali: First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Prefatory essay -- pt. II. Introduction.
• Sommario/riassunto: The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Recit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siecle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to Corsica and account of his trip to Scotland with Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne's enigmatic Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett's Travels through France and Italy. Negotiating between inventory and invention, these texts invite a reconsideration of conventional generic distinctions. They open up a literary space in which the full significance of the real and fictional journey motif can be explored."
• Titolo autorizzato: English travel narratives in the eighteenth century
• ISBN: 1-138-25644-7; 1-315-25642-8; 1-351-94000-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971782803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in early modern English literature.