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

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

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0199247005
ISBN13: 9780199247004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 21 2002
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.44
Language: English
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.

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