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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
American Explorers: Bourne, E.G., ed. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto
Author: Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
Author: Percy G. AdamsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813161983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James Cook, contemporary of Richardson and Fielding. And since the recit de voyage and the novel were then so international, he deals throughout with all the literatures of Western Europe, one of the book's chief themes being the close literary ties among European nations. Equally important in the present study is its demonstration that, just as early travel accounts were often a combination of reporting and fabrication, so prose fiction is not a dichotomy to be divided into the "adult" novel on the one hand and the "childish" romance on the other, but an ambivalence—the marriage of realism and romanticism. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel not only shows the novel to be amorphous and changing, it also proves impossible the task of defining the recit de voyage with its thousand forms and faces. Often the two types of literature are almost indistinguishable; even before Don Quixote, Adams writes, many travel accounts could have been advertised as having "the endless fascination of a wonderfully observed novel." This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction to the travel account, a form of literature too little known to students of belles lettres.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 27 ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN: 078126460X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Flagg's The far West...pt.2, and De Smet's Letters and sketches...v.28, Farnham's Travels in the great western prairies...pt.1
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: Flagg, E. The Far West. Pt. 2. Smet, P.J. de. Letters and sketches 1841-1842
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Papeles de Luna
Author: Herbert Ingram PriestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description