(ed) Tim Youngs
Autor(a) de The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Obras de (ed) Tim Youngs
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- Sexo
- male
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- Obras
- 7
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 87
- Popularidade
- #211,168
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 18
As each essay is written by someone different I found some better than others (as followed my interest level in certain places and periods). The essays are not entirely stand-alone there is some cross referencing between them which forms a whole work. The first five surveys mainly focus on English authors only, and there is little discussed about non-traditional narratives (slave narratives, etc..) such as can be found in the recent Oxford Anthology (2005). As a literary history of travel writing this is a wonderful reference and I recommend it highly, both for the professional scholar (I am not) and the interested fan of travel literature who wants to find the most important works and place them into historical context.… (mais)