Handbook of British Travel Writing
| Author | : Barbara Schaff |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2020-09-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110497050 |
This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 2
| Author | : Elizabeth H Chang |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2021-11-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000558681 |
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
| Author | : John Cramsie |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783270535 |
Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain.
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
| Author | : John Parker Anderson |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2024-04-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3385430135 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
| Author | : Tim Thornton |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781843832591 |
Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
