Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780199537525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 560 str.

Bohls, Elizabeth A.

Opis

By the end of the eighteenth century, British travelers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travelers wrote first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre.
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O autorze

Elizabeth Bohls is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995) and of articles on travel writing and the novel. Ian Duncan has edited editions by Conan Doyle, John Buchan, and Walter Scott for Oxford World's Classics and is the author of Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2005).