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Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel

By Robin Jarvis

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About the book

Why and how did people read literature on North America by explorers, travellers, emigrants, and tourists? This is the central question Robin Jarvis takes up as he addresses a significant gap in scholarship on travel writing: its contemporary reception. Referencing reviews in the periodical press, personal journals, letters, autobiographies, marginalia, and bibliographical evidence relating to the production, distribution, and reception of travel literature, Jarvis focuses especially on the idea...Show more

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ISBN

9780754668602

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel

Format

Hardcover

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