Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature

Informationen zum Autor MELANIE ORD is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Klappentext This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel. Zusammenfassung This study considers how a range of prose texts register! and help to shape! the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Travel and Humanism in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) Wit, Experience, and the Place of Naples in John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) Travel, Experience and the New Science Textual Experience in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611): Reading, Writing, Travelling Travelling through Texts: The Art of Digression and the Discourse on Method in John Dunton's Voyage Round the World (1691)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M Ord, M. Ord, Melanie Ord
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.09.2008
• EAN: 9780230602984
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60298-4
• Pagine: 254
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Literature, Political Science, Register, Science, Writing, Knowledge, Subject, Literary studies: general, Prose, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Understanding, European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600