Travel : a literary history / Peter Whitfield.

Main entry:

Whitfield, Peter, 1947-

Title & Author:

Travel : a literary history / Peter Whitfield.

Publication:

Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2011.

Description:

xi, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
The prehistory of travel writing -- The age of discovery -- The seventeenth century : the non-conquerors -- The eighteenth century : travelling for knowledge -- The nineteenth century : the theatre of the world -- The twentieth century : no foreign land.

Summary:

No previous generation has ever travelled so energetically or so obsessively as ours, nor has travel writing ever been so much in fashion as it is now. But behind the self-conscious literary artistry of today's narratives there lies a rich and fascinating history of travel writing, stretching back over several thousand years. Travel writing has emerged from migration, war, exploration, trade, conquest, pilgrimage, science, and poetic longing. But when they recorded their travels, the military commanders of Greece and Rome, the navigators of the Age of Discovery, the diplomats and missionaries of the seventeenth century, the dilettantes who set out on the Grand Tour, the romantic travellers and the scientists of the nineteenth century all had one thing in common: they were re-imagining the world, re-interpreting it in their own minds and for their readers. This is the first general survey of the entire history of travel literature, with illustrations reproduced from manuscripts and books in the Bodleian Library's collections and other sources.

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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781851243389 (hardcover)
1851243380 (hardcover)

Subject:

Travelers' writings History and criticism.
Écrits de voyageurs Histoire et critique.
Travelers' writings.
Reiseliteratur

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277695
Call No.: BIB 212628
Status: Available

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