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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 - 'From an Antique Land' (Paperback, Revised)
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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 - 'From an Antique Land' (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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