Garrett's Travels Revisited (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933227176 ISBN 13: 9781933227177

Publisher: Tagus Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Travels in My Homeland (1846), Almeida Garrett―the most prominent figure of Portuguese Romanticism―narrates his thirteen-day trip to Santarém, wittily intermingling personal experiences with a sentimental novel. Influenced by Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Garrett's masterpiece paved the way for great writers like Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis and helped foster modern Portuguese prose. This collection, the first in English, supplies comparative contexts by leading scholars that illuminate topics such as narrative technique, gender relations, women and nationalism, literary hypertext, travel writing and visual culture, literature and music, and Romantic fiction and classical literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor K. Mendes is associate professor of Portuguese and graduate program director in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Valéria M. Souza is a Ph.D. candidate in Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth and a visiting instructor at Middlebury College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tagus Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1933227176
• ISBN 13: 9781933227177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Mendes Victor K., Souza Valéria M.