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Travel writing / / Carl Thompson
| Travel writing / / Carl Thompson |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-136-72079-0
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-9910823181703321 |
Thompson Carl (Carl Edward)
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]]
| Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
| ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455236403321 |
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Freedgood Elaine
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]]
| Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
| ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780091303321 |
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Freedgood Elaine
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood
| Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood |
| Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
| ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819694703321 |
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Freedgood Elaine
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| Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low
| White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low |
| Autore | Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 299 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 823/.809355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human body in literature
Clothing and dress in literature Colonies in literature Cultural relations in literature English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Imperialism in literature Literature and anthropology - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-415-08148-3
1-134-89247-0 1-280-02094-6 0-203-35960-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part Part I -- chapter 1 BODY/BORDER LINES -- chapter 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS -- chapter 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY -- chapter TRANSITIONS -- part Part II -- chapter 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY -- chapter 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT -- chapter 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR -- chapter 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS -- chapter CONCLUSION. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455641303321 |
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Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low
| White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low |
| Autore | Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 299 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 823/.809355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human body in literature
Clothing and dress in literature Colonies in literature Cultural relations in literature English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Imperialism in literature Literature and anthropology - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-134-89246-2
0-415-08148-3 1-134-89247-0 1-280-02094-6 0-203-35960-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part Part I -- chapter 1 BODY/BORDER LINES -- chapter 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS -- chapter 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY -- chapter TRANSITIONS -- part Part II -- chapter 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY -- chapter 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT -- chapter 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR -- chapter 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS -- chapter CONCLUSION. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780103403321 |
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Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low
| White skins/Black masks : representation and colonialism / / Gail Ching-Liang Low |
| Autore | Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 299 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 823/.809355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human body in literature
Clothing and dress in literature Colonies in literature Cultural relations in literature English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Imperialism in literature Literature and anthropology - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-134-89246-2
0-415-08148-3 1-134-89247-0 1-280-02094-6 0-203-35960-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part Part I -- chapter 1 BODY/BORDER LINES -- chapter 2 THE DOMINION OF SONS -- chapter 3 MIMESIS OF SAVAGERY -- chapter TRANSITIONS -- part Part II -- chapter 4 THE COLONIAL UNCANNY -- chapter 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT -- chapter 6 THE COLONIAL MIRROR -- chapter 7 LOAFERS AND STORY-TELLERS -- chapter CONCLUSION. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823342203321 |
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Low Gail Ching-Liang <1960->
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| London, : Routledge, 1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Women writing the home tour, 1682-1812 / / Zoë Kinsley
| Women writing the home tour, 1682-1812 / / Zoë Kinsley |
| Autore | Kinsley Zoë <1977-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 820.9/32082 |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women travelers - Great Britain - History and criticism Women and literature - Great Britain - History National characteristics, British, in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Sex role in literature Travel in literature Travel writing - History |
| ISBN |
1-138-27324-4
1-315-23367-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Travels and texts : considering the travelogue form -- part 2. Perspectives on the landscape : detachment and destabilization in home tour writing -- part 3. Travelling identities : travel theory and the emergence of British tourism. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154570003321 |
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Kinsley Zoë <1977-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worse than beasts [[electronic resource] ] : an anatomy of melancholy and the literature of travel in 17th and 18th century England / / Jennifer I.M. Reid
| Worse than beasts [[electronic resource] ] : an anatomy of melancholy and the literature of travel in 17th and 18th century England / / Jennifer I.M. Reid |
| Autore | Reid Jennifer <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (151 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/32 |
| Collana | Contexts and consequences |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism British - Foreign countries - History - 18th century British - Foreign countries - History - 17th century Foreign countries in literature Melancholy in literature Travelers in literature Travel in literature Melancholy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-935790-61-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456659803321 |
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Reid Jennifer <1962->
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| Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worse than beasts [[electronic resource] ] : an anatomy of melancholy and the literature of travel in 17th and 18th century England / / Jennifer I.M. Reid
| Worse than beasts [[electronic resource] ] : an anatomy of melancholy and the literature of travel in 17th and 18th century England / / Jennifer I.M. Reid |
| Autore | Reid Jennifer <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (151 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/32 |
| Collana | Contexts and consequences |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism British - Foreign countries - History - 18th century British - Foreign countries - History - 17th century Foreign countries in literature Melancholy in literature Travelers in literature Travel in literature Melancholy |
| ISBN | 1-935790-61-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780503603321 |
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Reid Jennifer <1962->
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| Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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