Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers,
scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand
tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors
at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the
lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and
cultures are shown to give rise to rich and complex works, in which
individual psychic investments frequently subvert an inherited
cultural discourse. In exploring the various uses and pleasures of
travel, Porter interprets it as a transgressive activity animated
by desire and haunted by different forms of guilt. Broad in its
historical scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book
draws on literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender criticism, and the
social history of ideas. Texts analyzed include works by Boswell,
Diderot, Bougainville, Cook, Stendhal, Darwin, Flaubert, Freud, D.
H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Gide, Lvi-Strauss, Barthes, and V. S.
Naipaul. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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