The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing Paperback (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Hulme, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521786525 ISBN 13: 9780521786522

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Six essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest; while the final three analyse the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing.

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Críticas:

' ... this Companion shows how far we have come in understanding the literature of knowledge, and in defining its relation to one kind of power.' The Times Literary Supplement

'This Companion not only covers the ground expertly, it also provides a critical apparatus for looking at the genre afresh and coherently. One of the most innovative additions to the series, a mine of key source materials for any information specialists.' Reference Reviews

'It is entirely to the credit of editors Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, as well as the other contributors to the Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, that they have produced such a confident, mature, and usable volume ... the Companion is a great success and maintains a consistently high standard throughout.' Studies in Travel Writing

'... an important contribution ...'. Journeys

Biografía del autor:

Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature, University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797 (1986) and Remnants of Conquests: The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877–1998 (2000).

Tim Youngs is Reader in English and American Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Travelers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850–1900 (1994), and the editor of Writing and Race (1997).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521786525
• ISBN 13: 9780521786522
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358