Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349440399)

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Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840

$54.99

Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.

Author: P. Smethurst
ISBN-10: 1349440396
ISBN-13: 9781349440399
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 243
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d
By P. Smethurst
By P. Smethurst
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PAUL SMETHURST is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses in travel writing, fictions of globalization and literature and the environment. As well as publications on postmodernism and contemporary fiction, he has published widely on travel writing, and is presently completing a book on the cultural history of the bicycle.

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