Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts…
Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts…
Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal's study of the narratives and discourses of tr…
"In the Encyclopedia of Travel Literature, an expert in the field takes you on a journey through the best writing in the genre as he sketches the lives and achievements of explorers, adventurers, novelists, and poets from 1450 to the present and describes, critiques, and quotes …
Before the days of photography and TV, and when travelling abroad was for the very few, people learned about foreign countries, other peoples, and intrepid adventurers through the works of travel writers. This book sketches the lives of explorers, novelists and poets from 1450 t…
Tours of Hell explores the tours of hell found in Jewish and Christian apocalypses of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, spanning a thousand years of human history.
Based on the author's thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography: p. [175]-190. Includes index.
