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Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 : from an antique land / / Nigel Leask
| Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 : from an antique land / / Nigel Leask |
| Autore | Leask Nigel |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 338 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Travel writing - History - 18th century
Travel writing - History - 19th century Literature |
| ISBN |
1-383-03846-5
1-280-44669-2 0-19-155439-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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.
Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910969201103321 |
Leask Nigel
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring genres / / Jean Vivies ; translated by Claire Davison
| English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring genres / / Jean Vivies ; translated by Claire Davison |
| Autore | Vivies Jean |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (141 pages) |
| Disciplina | 828/.50809355 |
| Collana | Studies in Early Modern English Literature |
| 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-315-25642-8
1-351-94000-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Prefatory essay -- pt. II. Introduction. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466004903321 |
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Vivies Jean
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring genres / / Jean Vivies ; translated by Claire Davison
| English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring genres / / Jean Vivies ; translated by Claire Davison |
| Autore | Vivies Jean |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (141 pages) |
| Disciplina | 828/.50809355 |
| Collana | Studies in Early Modern English Literature |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-138-25644-7
1-315-25642-8 1-351-94000-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Prefatory essay -- pt. II. Introduction. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792509203321 |
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Vivies Jean
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traveling women [[electronic resource] ] : narrative visions of early America / / Susan Clair Imbarrato
| Traveling women [[electronic resource] ] : narrative visions of early America / / Susan Clair Imbarrato |
| Autore | Imbarrato Susan Clair |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/320922 |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Travel writing - History - 18th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Women travelers - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4212-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454372803321 |
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Imbarrato Susan Clair
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| Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traveling women [[electronic resource] ] : narrative visions of early America / / Susan Clair Imbarrato
| Traveling women [[electronic resource] ] : narrative visions of early America / / Susan Clair Imbarrato |
| Autore | Imbarrato Susan Clair |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/320922 |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Travel writing - History - 18th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Women travelers - United States - History |
| ISBN | 0-8214-4212-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782090803321 |
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Imbarrato Susan Clair
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| Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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