Narrow your search

Library

ULiège (3)

KU Leuven (2)

ULB (2)

KBR (1)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UCLouvain (1)

UCLL (1)

More...

Resource type

book (3)


Language

English (3)


Year
From To Submit

2012 (1)

2011 (1)

2003 (1)

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by
Jane Austen's heroines : intimacy in human relationships
Author:
ISBN: 0710203349 9780415673112 9780203810408 9781136681769 9781136681806 9781136681813 9781138084476 Year: 2011 Publisher: London,Boston : Routledge & K. Paul,


Book
Unruly Penelopes and the ghosts : narratives of English Canada
Author:
ISBN: 9781554583638 9781554586387 1554586380 9781554582617 155458261X 1554583632 1283550628 9786613863072 Year: 2012 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.

Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia
Author:
ISBN: 1579582478 157958425X 1579584241 1579584403 9781579582470 9781579584405 9781579584252 9781579584245 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Fitzroy Dearborn,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes - Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu; writers - Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Ghatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger; methods of transport and types of journey - balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expedition, pilgrimmage, space travel and exploration; genres - buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New Worl chronicles, postcards; companies and societies - East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti; and issues and themes - censorship, exile, orientalism and tourism. This comprehensive resource is designed for all those involved in teaching or researching this literature, as well as the general reader with an interest in exploring this growing subject. Entries include: Afghanistan; Airplane; Alexander the Great (356-323 BC); Atlantic Ocean: Middle Passage; Backpacking; Baker, Samuel White (1821-93); Balkans; Byrd, William (1674-1744); Byzantine Empire; Canals; Champlain, Samuel de (1567-1635); Children's travel writing; Cook, James (1728-79); Diaries; Dickens, Charles (1812-70); East India Company (Dutch); Fantasy travel; France: pre-revolutionary; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832); Golden Fleece, Quest for; Henry the Navigator voyages; Hunting and big game expeditions; Iceland; Journalists and journalism; Kashmir; Landscape and topography; Melville, Herman (1819-91); Mesopotamia; Military memoirs; Northwest Frontier; Pizarro, Francisco (c. 1478-1541); Race and ethnicity, issues of; Royal Geographical Society; Sahara Desert; Siberia; Slave narratives (New World); Space travel and exploration; Timbuktu; Verne, Jules (1828-1905); Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512)

Keywords

Carnets de route --- Carnets de voyages --- Descriptions de voyages --- Impressions de voyages --- Journaux de voyages --- Littérature de voyage --- Reis en reizen --- Reisbeschrijving --- Reisbeschrijvingen --- Reisverhalen --- Relations de voyages --- Récit de voyage --- Récits de voyage --- Récits de voyages --- Travel -- Authorship --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings --- Voyage [Littérature de ] --- Voyage [Récits de ] --- Voyage et voyages --- Voyages [Carnets de ] --- Voyages [Journaux de ] --- Voyages [Relations de ] --- Voyages [Récits de ] --- Voyages and travels --- Voyageurs [Récits de ] --- Voyageurs [Écrits de ] --- Writings of travelers --- Écrits de voyageurs --- Travel in literature --- Voyage dans la littératures --- Ecrits de voyageurs --- Voyage --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Art d'écrire --- Voyages and travels. --- Travelers' writings. --- Travel writing. --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis --- #KVHA:Reisliteratuur --- #KVHA:Reisverhalen; encyclopedieen --- 910.4 <03> --- Travel --- Authorship --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Literature --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Geography --- Adventure and adventurers --- Travelers --- Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 910.4 <03> Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Reisimpressies --- Voyage dans la littératures --- Encyclopédies --- Art d'écrire --- Encyclopedias. --- Voyages --- Recits de voyages --- Encyclopedies

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by