Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 —— 'From an Antique Land'

----- 好奇心和旅行写作的美学，1770-1840：'来自古老的土地'

ISBN: 9780199269303 出版年：2002 页码：348 Leask, Nigel Oxford University Press

The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the 'antique lands' of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of 'curiosity' to offer an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period.