| English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century: Exploring Genres Contributor(s): Viviès, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138256447 ISBN-13: 9781138256446 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 828.508 |
| Series: Modern Economic and Social History |
| Physical Information: 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le R cit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe si cle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to Corsica and account of his trip to Scotland with Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne's enigmatic Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett's Travels through France and Italy. Negotiating between inventory and invention, these texts invite a reconsideration of conventional generic distinctions. They open up a literary space in which the full significance of the real and fictional journey motif can be explored. |