Autore	Cheek Pamela
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/3538
Soggetto topico	English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Erotic literature, English - History and criticism Sex in literature French literature - 18th century - History and criticism Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism Erotic literature, French - History and criticism Comparative literature - English and French Comparative literature - French and English Globalization - History - 18th century Imperialism in literature Sex customs in literature Colonies in literature Enlightenment
ISBN	0-8047-8030-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. METROPOLITAN ALLEGORIES -- 1. National Character, Publicity and Sex -- 2. Public Women in the French Body Politic -- 3. Public Life in Enlightenment Pornography -- PART 2. ANTIPODES -- 4. The Sexual Nature of South Sea Islands -- 5. British Encounter: Recognizing Sensibility -- 6. French Encounter: Crafting Transparency -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910826729403321

Autore	Burton Stacy
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	820.9/32
Collana	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Soggetto topico	Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism Modernism (Literature) Postmodernism (Literature) Travel in literature Travel writing - History
ISBN	1-107-42498-4 1-107-42286-8 1-107-53975-7 1-107-41719-8 1-107-42096-2 1-107-41974-3 1-139-60020-6 1-107-41843-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Critical paradigms and problems -- The privilege -and problem- of narrative authority -- Modernist and postmodernist travels -- Nostalgia and the spectacle of modernity -- Perpetual wartime -- The allure of authenticity.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453244903321

Autore	Blanton Casey
Edizione	[First Routledge pbk. edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (167 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/355
Collana	Genres in context
Soggetto topico	American prose literature - History and criticism Authorship - Psychological aspects English prose literature - History and criticism Self in literature Travel writing - History Travel - Psychological aspects Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-136-74564-5 1-138-17834-9 0-203-81978-0 1-136-74565-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	TRAVEL WRITTING THE SELF AND THE WORLD ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Chapter 1 Narrating Self and Other: A Historical Overview; Chapter 2 ""Vain Travelers"": James Boswell and the Grand Tour; Chapter 3 Victorian Women Travelers: Mary Kingsley; Chapter 4 The Modern Psychological Journey: Graham Greene; Chapter 5 Nature-Travel Writing: Peter Matthiessen; Chapter 6 ""Splenetic Travelers"": V. S. Naipaul; Chapter 7 ""Lying Travelers"": Bruce Chatwin; Chapter 8 Envoi: Writings of Place and the Poetics of Displacement in the Works of Paul Theroux and Roland Barthes Notes and ReferencesBibliographic Essay; Recommended Titles; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452644003321

Autore	Thompson Carl (Carl Edward)
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/491
Collana	New critical idiom
Soggetto topico	Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism Travelers' writings - History and criticism Travel in literature Travel writing - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-15097-2 9786613150974 1-136-72080-4 0-203-81624-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Travel Writing; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Defining the Genre; Exclusive and Inclusive Definitions of 'Travel Writing'; Travellers' Tales: Fact and Fiction in Travel Writing; The Cultural and Intellectual Status of Travel Writing; 3. Travel Writing Through the Ages: An Overview; The Ancient World; Medieval Travellers and Travel Writing; Early Modern Travel Writing; The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1837; The Victorian and Edwardian Periods, 1837-1914; Travel Writing from 1914 to the Present; 4. Reporting the World Discoveries and Wonders: Some Perennial Problems in Travel WritingEpistemological Decorum in Travel Writing: Gainingthe Reader's Trust; Authority and Veracity in the Modern Travel Book; 5. Revealing the Self; Grand Tourists, Pilgrims and Questing Knights: Self-Fashioning in Addison's Remarks on Italy (1705) and Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana (1596); Writing the Self: Travel Writing's Inward Turn; The Imperious 'I'?; 6. Representing the Other; Strategies of Othering I: Travel Writing and ColonialDiscourse; Strategies of Othering II: Travel Writing andNeo-Colonialism Other Voices: Contesting Travel Writing's ColonialistTendencies7. Questions of Gender and Sexuality; Masculinity, Travel and Travel Writing; Performing Femininity on the Page: Women's TravelWriting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Women Travellers and Colonialism; Women's Travel Writing Today; Glossary; Bibliography and further reading; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461399003321