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Author:   Nigel Leask (, Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780199247004

ISBN 10:   0199247005
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   10 January 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel 1: Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange 2: Curious Narratives and the Problem of Creidt: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile' 3: 'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania: pt. 1 Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants; pt. 2 Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' 4: Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque 5: Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India 6: Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America (the Impossibility of Personal Narrative) Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity Bibliography Index

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... addresses the intersections between space and time more fully than any other recent book on Romantic travel ... Leask's detailed study contributes valuably to the body of criticism on Romantic travel literature and, more broadly, to criticism on Romantic conceptions of place and space. European Romantic Review At every turn, this book admirably resists overgeneralization and reductionism. European Romantic Review This is a timely, engrossing, and important revisionary account of Romantic period travel writing; for textual/theoretical journeying, it is the most accomplished ars apodemica to date. The Byron Journal Leask's approach is characterized by scrupulous attention to detail, ingenuity, and subtlety. The Byron Journal Leask ranges more widely than any of his predecessors ... Leask admirably rises to the challenge by widening his scrutiny beyond works composed in English ... an admirable and original synthesis of much rarely explored travel material. Studies in Travel Writing Wide-ranging and discriminating ... Leask's book is refreshingly comparative, and boldly breaks new ground ... He unsettles a number of orthodoxies which have cramped our understanding of what happened when Western Europeans travelled outside the boundaries of their own civilization. David Womersley, Times Literary Supplement

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