Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
'From an Antique Land'
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- Kiadás sorszáma New ed
- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2004. február 5.
- ISBN 9780199269303
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem352 oldal
- Méret 233x157x18 mm
- Súly 616 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk numerous halftones 0
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Rövid leírás:
The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the 'antique lands' of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of 'curiosity' to offer an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing.
Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
... a thoughtful and wide-ranging book ... Leask has provided an illuminating exploration of the relationship between travel writing, aesthetics and reception.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel
Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange
Curious Narratives and the Problem of Credit: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'
'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania
Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque
Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India
Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America
Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity
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