Literature as a Mode of Travel: Five Essays and a Postscript
Rice, Warner G.; Jewkes, W.T.; Osborn, James M.; Fussell, Paul, Jr.; Barrows, Herbert; Rogers, Franklin R.; Barbour, Philip L.
Language: English
Published by The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA, 1963
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119pp w index. Thirteen indexed illustrations. Wrapper shows tiny splatter front near top, light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Five essays reprinted from the Bulletin of The New York Public Library, June 1962; March, April, May, June, October, 1963; with an Introduction and a Postscript. Essays include: The Literature of Travel and the Mode of Romance in the Renaissance (W.T. Jewkes); Travel Literature and the Rise of Neo-Hellenism in England (James M. Osborn); Patrick Brydone: The Eighteenth-Century Traveler as Representative Man (Paul Fussell, Jr.); Convention and Novelty in the Romantic Generation's Experience of Italy (Herbert Barrows); The Road to Reality: Burlesque Travel Literature and Mark Twain's Roughing It (Franklin R. Rogers). Introduction: Travellers and Travel Books (Warner G. Rice). Postscript: Fact and Fiction in Captain John Smith's True Travels (Philip L. Barbour).
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- Title
- Literature as a Mode of Travel: Five Essays and a Postscript
- Author
- Rice, Warner G.; Jewkes, W.T.; Osborn, James M.; Fussell, Paul, Jr.; Barrows, Herbert; Rogers, Franklin R.; Barbour, Philip L.
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- The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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