English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century - Exploring Genres

'... a scholarly version of Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel...' ChoiceReviews 'Viviès's study [...] makes compelling reading, particularly in fostering the connection between travel writing and narrative theory.' Studies in Travel Writing 'English Travel Narratives will appeal to those interested in the novelistic genre as well as to eighteenth-century historians and scholars of early travel narratives. As part of the Studies in Early Modern English Literature Series, this book presents a provocative ensemble of works that interrogate the characteristics that define travel narratives versus those associated with a novel.' Libraries and Culture Informationen zum Autor Jean Viviès Zusammenfassung A study of how travel writing and fiction developed as overlapping genres in the 18th Century, notably in the writings of Boswell, Sterne and Smollett.

Product details

• Authors: Vivies, Jean Vivies, Jean Viviès
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138256446
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25644-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Modern Economic and Social History; Studies in Early Modern English Literature; Studies in Early Modern English Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general