Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: `From an Antique Land'

ISBN-13: 9780199247004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 354 str.

Nigel Leask

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Wide-ranging and discriminating ... Leask's book is refreshingly comparative, and boldly breaks new ground ... He unsettles a number of orthodoxies which have cramped our understanding of what happened when Western Europeans travelled outside the boundaries of their own civilization.