Author: John Benjamin SeelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ellora Caves (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Wonders of Elora, Or, The Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated Out of a Mountain of Granite and Extending Upwards of a Mile and a Quarter at Elora, in the East Indies, by the Route of Poona, Ahmed-Nuggur, and Toka, Returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad, with Some General Observations on the People and Country
Author: John Benjamin SeelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ellora Caves (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Mariamne
Author: Elijah FentonA Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution, With The Charter Laws And Regulations
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, with an Account of the Institution, Charters, Laws and Regulations
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library
Author: Catalogue or alphabetical index
Author: New York city, Astor librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book 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 in literature, 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 tendency in 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 credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and 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 by picturesque 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.