Travel, Discovery, Transformation / Gabriel R. Ricci.
"This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives. The essays span a range of topics from iconic ancient travel stories to modern tourism. They discuss travel in the ancient world, mode...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; I The Allure of Ancient Greece; 1 "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient; 2 "If Peopled and Cultured": Bartram's Travels and the Odyssey; 3 Commodifying Antiquity in Mary Nisbet's Journey to the Ottoman Empire; 4 The Journey to Greece in the American and the Greek Modernist Literary Imagination: Henry Miller and George Seferis; II Women's Voices; 5 A Protestant in Foreign Catholic and Muslim Spaces: The Turkish Embassy Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
- 6 Frameworks of Freedom and Fear: Authorizing the Voice in Women's Travel Writing7 Self-Transformation through Dangerous Travel: Mary Morris's Nothing to Declare and Audrey Schulman's The Cage; 8 "That Wonderous Medusa-Face": Goethe's Italian Journey, George Eliot, and G.H. Lewes; III Traveling with God; 9 The Literary Culture of Missionary Travel; 10 On the Road to Health: Pilgrimage in Medieval England; IV New Worlds; 11 Culture, the Caribbean Landscape, and Environmental Change; 12 "A Scale of Hideousness": Snakes and Other Reptiles in the New Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century.
- 13 Bitter Laughter and Colonial Novellistica in Galeotto Cei's Relazione delle IndieV Modern Journeys; 14 Pneumo Prose: National Socialism as a Helvetic Disease; 15 Plato's Parable of the Cave and the Transformative Power of Travel in Mediterranean Cinema; 16 Ryszard Kapuściński's Polyphonic Travels; Contributors.