Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596-1682.
Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596-1682.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319626123 (electronic bk.)
9783319626116
9783319626116
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0199
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
©2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (213 pages)
Dizi
New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800 Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Angell in Oxford: The Travails of a Greek Monk in Seventeenth-Century England -- A Manuscript with “Curious Drawings“ -- An “Honest“ or “Vagabonding“ Greek? -- Chapter 3 The “Fruit of Travell“: Fynes Moryson and Thomas Dallam in the Greek Islands -- Fynes Moryson's Desire for Travel -- The Art of Traveling -- Tyranny, Property, and the Greeks -- Thomas Dallam's Curious Mission to Constantinople -- Greek Easter in Zante -- The Reciprocity of the Gaze -- Chapter 4 “A Revelation of Time“: Translating Greece in George Sandys' Relation of a Journey -- The Traveler as Translator -- Tyranny and the Ignorance of History -- Escaping the Shipwreck of Time -- Chapter 5 “Fensed with Experience and Garnished with Truth“: Experience and Invention in William Lithgow's Greek Journey -- Chapter 6 The Rediscovery of Athens in George Wheler's Journey into Greece -- Bibliography -- Index.
Konu
Travelers' writings, English.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
