| Description |
vi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Limited visions of Africa: geographies of savagery and civility in early eighteenth-century narratives / Roxann Wheeler -- Enlightenment travels: the making of epiphany in Tibet / Laurie Hovell McMillin -- Writing travel and mapping sexuality: Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone / Richard Phillips -- Flight from Lucknow: British women travelling and writing home, 1857-8 / Alison Blunt -- Scripting Egypt: Orientalism and the cultures of travel / Derek Gregory -- Dis-Orientation: on the shock of the familiar in a far-away place / James Duncan -- Exoticism of the familiar and the familiarity of the exotic: fin-de-siecle travellers to Greece / Robert Shannan Peckham -- Travelling through the closet / Michael Brown -- Writing over the map of Provence: the touristic therapy of A year in Provence / Joanne P. Sharp |
| Summary |
These essays focus primarily on British travel writers from the 18th and 19th century and explore the tensions between imaginary and real geographical difference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Travel in literature.
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Travel -- 18th century.
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Travel -- 19th century.
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Voyages, Imaginary -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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Voyages, Imaginary.
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| Author |
Duncan, James S.
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Gregory, Derek, 1951-
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| LC no. |
98008225 |
| ISBN |
0415160138 |
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0415160146 (paperback) |
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