French romantic travel writing : Chateaubriand to Nerval / C.W. Thompson.

Author: Thompson, C. W. (Christopher W.)

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Descriptionxi, 453 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction -- The birth of a fashion (1) : empire and exile -- The birth of a fashion (2) : high hopes restored -- From fashion to ritual : itineraries and incentives -- The pleasures and challenges of subjectivity : from dreams, humour, and self-consciousness to autobiography -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (1) : Switzerland and the romantic 'North' -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (2) : the 'Orient' and Spain towards the 'Orient' -- Between dreams, desires, and realities (3) : the 'Orient' of the Maghreb and the Old Levant -- Women travellers and autobiography -- The wish to guide and to inform : the genre under pressure -- Nature, science, vision -- Intertextuality and the quest for literary energy -- From avatars to decadence and future directions.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-440) and index.

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