Writing Mobile Lives, 15001700

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. It opens perspectives to travel writing in its many modes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Sommario

1. Introduction; 2. Mediating experience: the (Ailing) body, emotions, and senses of the traveller; 3. Recording material mobile lives; 4. Afterlives of travel: memory studies and travel memoirs; 5. Conclusion.

Info autore

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in the cultural history of early modern travel, cultural encounters, and the self- and life writing of early modern mobile people. She is the author of two books, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination (2011) and British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century: 'Slaves' of the Sultan (2022).

Riassunto

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. It opens perspectives to travel writing in its many modes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eva Johanna Holmberg, Eva Johanna (University of Helsinki) Holmberg, Holmberg Eva Johanna
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009507431
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950743-1
• Pagine: 84
• Serie: Elements in Travel Writing
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, Travel writing, Social and cultural history