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The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801499333)
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xSurveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, while claiming to relate fact, were often passing on monstrous projections. She contends that their writing not only documented but also made possible the conquest of the peoples whom she travelers described, and she shows how travel literature contributed to the genesis of the modern novel and the modern life sciences.
Author: Mary Baine Campbell
ISBN-10: 080149933X
ISBN-13: 9780801499333
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1991
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
By Mary Baine Campbell
xMary Baine Campbell is Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is also the author of Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, also from Cornell, in addition to two books of poetry.
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