Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson
Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson

Author: Wendy Laura Belcher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 019979331X

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Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.

Handbook of British Travel Writing
Handbook of British Travel Writing

Author: Barbara Schaff

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-09-07

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 3110498979

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This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.