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ENGLISH TRAVEL NARRATIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
EXPLORING GENRES |
| By: |
Jean Vivies, Mr. Richard Bradford, Dr. Netta Murray Goldsmith |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754604489 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754604488 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2002 |
| Series: |
Studies in Early Modern English Literature |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Charts the growth of the "travel narrative" - from its protean origins in Addison, to the shifting perspective of the post-Romantic hedonist. A century's passing saw personal pleasure rather than the improvement of the mind become the reason for travel, as the era of the Grand Tour passed. |
| Synopsis: |
The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Recit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siecle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to Corsica and account of his trip to Scotland with Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne's enigmatic Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett's Travels through France and Italy. Negotiating between inventory and invention, these texts invite a reconsideration of conventional generic distinctions. They open up a literary space in which the full significance of the real and fictional journey motif can be explored. |
| Illustrations: |
chronology, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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