Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840: 'From an Antique Land' Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840: 'From an Antique Land' Book

Drawing on a range of 18th and 19th-century travel books and scholarship in literature history geography and anthropology this book studies the Romantic obsession with the landscapes of Ethiopia. It explores the effects of problems of credit worthiness and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' on the status of travel writing.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the antique lands of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel...

  • 0199269300
  • 9780199269303
  • Nigel Leask
  • 5 February 2004
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • New Ed
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