Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 : from an antique land / / Nigel Leask
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Leask Nigel
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| Titolo: |
Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 : from an antique land / / Nigel Leask
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 338 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | Travel writing - History - 18th century |
| Travel writing - History - 19th century | |
| Literature | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2002. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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. |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 |
| ISBN: | 1-383-03846-5 |
| 1-280-44669-2 | |
| 0-19-155439-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969201103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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