Description: Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 by Nigel Leask Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This is a study of the Romantic obsession with the antique lands of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. It focuses on the unstable discourse of curiosity to offer an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period. Publisher Description The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these antique lands, drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship inliterature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than transparent adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendencyin modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of creditworthiness, and the nebulous epistemologicial claims of curiosity (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing.Attentive to the often divergent idioms of eliteand popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged bypicturesque aesthetics, systematic geographical narrative, and the emergence of a transcendental self axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Author Biography Nigel Leask is at Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Queens College, Cambridge. Details ISBN 0199247005 ISBN-13 9780199247004 Title Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 Author Nigel Leask Format Hardcover Year 2002 Pages 348 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:6862302; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780199247004
Book Title: Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
Number of Pages: 348 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 : `From an Antique Land'
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Mexico, Essays & Travelogues, Aesthetics, Asia / India & South Asia, Middle East / Egypt, Africa / East, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2002
Item Weight: 28.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Nigel Leask
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Travel, Philosophy
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
