UID:
almafu_9959229136702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxiii, 190 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-37791-8
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9786613377913
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1-84331-839-3
Serie:
Anthem studies in travel
Inhalt:
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORIAL NOTE; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: REAL AND IMAGINARY VOYAGES; Colonial Vision; Reality Effects; Utopian Worlds; Literary Criticism; Robinsonades and Gulliveriana; Chapter 2: BLANK SPACES FOR THE IMAGINATION; Antipodean Inversions and Reversals; Joseph Hall's Mundus alter et idem (1605); I; II; III; Gabriel de Foigny's La Terre Australe connue (1676); I; II; III; Chapter 3: EXOTICISM AND ROMANTICISM; The Colour of Truth; Robert Paltock's The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1750)
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III; III; Chapter 4: FINDING PARADISE AND UTOPIA IN THE PACIFIC; The Disappearance of La Pérouse; Fragmens du dernier voyage de La Pérouse (1797); I; II; III; The Life of La Perouse, the Celebrated and Unfortunate French Navigator (1801); I; II; III; Chapter 5: AUSTRALIA'S MYTHIC INLAND; Australia in the Antipodes; The Dead Heart; Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland (1837); I; II; III; End Matter; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84331-800-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
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