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Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing
Contributors:
By (Author) Dennis Porter
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
910.4
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
354
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
652g
Description
Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are show
