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Travel writing, 1700-1830
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ISBN: 1280964960 0191517909 142948845X 9781429488457 9780191517907 0192840517 9780192840516 9781280964961 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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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 at 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 liter

In transit : travel, text, empire
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ISBN: 0820456993 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Lang

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The fatal gift of beauty : the Italies of British travellers : an annotated anthology
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ISBN: 9051839812 Year: 1996 Volume: 15 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlanta Rodopi

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Abroad : British literary traveling between the Wars
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ISBN: 0192813609 0195030680 0195027671 1423738225 0198020325 1280439157 1601295758 9781423738220 9781601295750 9781280439155 9780195027679 9780192813602 9780195030686 9786610439157 661043915X Year: 1980 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit
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ISBN: 1856496287 1856496279 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Zed Books

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Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies; this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the genre. It combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis--new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies--with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion. These explore: "Othering" discourses--of cannibalism and infanticide; the production of colonial knowledge--geographic, medicinal, zoological; the role of sexual anxiety in the construction of the gendered travelling body; the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres; reappropriation of alien discourse by indigenous cultures. The book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendancy. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing.

Travels and translations in the sixteenth century : selected papers from the second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)
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ISBN: 0754608328 Year: 2004 Volume: 20

Travel writing 1700 - 1830 : an anthology.
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ISBN: 0192840517 9780192840516 Year: 2005 Volume: *16 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Visualizing Africa in nineteenth-century British travel accounts
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ISBN: 0415990017 9780415990011 9780203884638 9781135856076 9781135856113 9781135856120 9780415699624 0415699622 1135856125 9786611838324 1281838322 0203884639 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual representations. While previous works have concentrated on exploring the stereotyped nature of printed imagery of Africa, this study examines the actual production process of images and the books in whic

Travel writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 : culture, history, politics
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ISBN: 1403942862 9781403942869 Year: 2005

Place matters : gendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 0813567394 0585022070 9780585022079 9780813522487 081352248X 9780813522494 0813522498 081352248X 0813522498 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rutgers University Press

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