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

Hoofdkenmerken

Auteur:	Leask, Nigel
Titel:	Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 'From an Antique Land'
Uitgever:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780199269303
Land van oorsprong:	United Kingdom
Prijs:	€ 62,57
Verschijningsdatum:	05-02-2004
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

Inhoudelijke kenmerken

Categorie:	Classic travel writing
Periode:	c 1800 to c 1900
Geillustreerd:	numerous halftones
Dewey code:	809.93591

Technische kenmerken

Verschijningsvorm:	Paperback / softback
Paginas:	352
Hoogte mm.:	235
Breedte mm.:	157
Dikte mm.:	20
Gewicht gr.:	510

Inhoud:

Drawing on a range of 18th and 19th-century travel books and scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, this book studies the Romantic obsession with the landscapes of Ethiopia. It explores the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' on the status of travel writing.