Travelers & Travel Liars
Author: Percy G. Adams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 328
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Author: Percy G. Adams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780520079922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Author: Mike Pincombe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1351877577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, literature on English writers of the period; and over the past twenty years or so this emphasis has been deepened by the use of more complicated and sophisticated theories of literary and cultural intertextuality, as well as broadened to cover areas such as religious and political relations, trade and traffic, and the larger formations of colonialism and imperialism. The essays collected here address the full range of traditional and contemporary issues, providing new light on canonical authors from More to Shakespeare, and also directing critical attention to many unfamiliar texts which need to be better known for our fuller understanding of sixteenth-century English literature. This volume makes a very particular contribution to current thinking on Anglo-continental literary relations in the sixteenth century. Maintaining a breadth and balance of concerns and approaches, Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century represents the academic throughout Europe: essays are contributed by scholars working in Hungary, Greece, Italy, and France, as well as in the UK. Arthur Kinney's introduction to the collection provides an North American overview of what is perhaps a uniquely comprehensive index to contemporary European criticism and scholarship in the area of early modern travel and translation.
Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 0195155971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.
Author: Karen Harvey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521822350
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Author: Steven Shapin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-11-18
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 022614884X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
Author: Leila Koivunen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1135856117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual representations. While previous works have concentrated on exploring the stereotyped nature of printed imagery of Africa, this study examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. Thus, the main focus of the work is not on the aesthetic value of pictures, but in the activities, interaction, and situations that gave birth to them in both Africa and Europe.
Author: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780674375604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.