Leask, Nigel

Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770 - 1840 : 'From an Antique Land'

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Softcover with glossy covers. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. x, 338 p. w/footnotes, illus., bibliography, index. A critical and scholarly look at late 18th to mid 19th c. travel work, some of the most widely read type of books for this period. Leak brings literary criticism, history, geography, and anthropology to bear in his study. Very good. Item #19322

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