...Beatrice Fink The College of William & Mary 2004 R e v i e w E s s a y Spaced Out: Early Modern French Travel Literature Beatrice Fink University of Maryland Sophie...

...Jason H. Pearl Duke University Press 2007 Woodes Rogers and the Boundary of Travel Facts Jason H. Pearl Boston University In A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712...

... by Duke University Press 2021 travel writing authenticity realism reader response shipwreck accounts Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793923 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2 1 Presenting Truth in Early Eighteenth- Century Travel...

...Tobias Menely The College of William & Mary 2004  Traveling in Place: Gilbert White’s Cosmopolitan Parochialism Tobias Menely Indiana University “We have great Faith in your...

...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

... was not alone in challenging the gendered demarcation of scientific observation. From the second half of the century, British women travelers carefully packed minerals in cases, filled bags with botanical specimens, and roamed the shores in search of shells and seaweed. This article proposes that British women...

... impressing on non-sailors in his readership what is perhaps the central experience of sea travel in the sailing age: the dull passage of vast stretches of time against an unvaried backdrop of sea and sky. This essay considers how Falconer narrativizes the voyage in his poem and balances the competing demands...

...Craig Bailey This article focuses on the physician James Johnson to examine the role Irishness played in the process of identity formation in London during the long eighteenth century. Using biographies, medical journals, and travel literature to chart the development of Johnson’s identity...

... of Great Britain to the Emperor of China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 (1807)—and its imaginative engagement with Chinese culture. While Macartney’s narrative partakes of formal and aesthetic qualities associated with travel writing from the Grand Tour and with scientific exploration, it cannot wholly...

... and ethical killing that flourished in seventeenth-century England. Dryden joins the company of travel writers, pamphleteers, poets, scholars, and philosophers who were troubled by the pervasive mistreatment of animals in Western Europe. Duke University Press 2009 R...

... of Burney’s family, as inhabitants of a late eighteenth-century London saturated by the exotic, participated in all these activities. They had particular interest in, as well as privileged access to, Oceanic material, through Frances’s brother James, a naval officer who traveled on two expeditions with James...

...Marie E. McAllister In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, the Grand Tour, sex, and venereal disease became almost indivisible in the public imagination. The Grand Tour was an essential element of a well-born man's education. Yet a persistent belief developed that continental travel...

... toward an Enlightenment mindset before they even saw the southern hemisphere. A different story about Enlightenment and the Pacific emerges for less-obviously philosophical voyagers. For these travelers—most of them destined for a maritime but not necessarily an intellectual life—the Pacific could prove...

... be looking at several long-forgotten travel books published between 1818 and 1824 in order to consider the conventionality of their anti-American rhetoric, rheto- ric that takes the form of comic set pieces. James Chandler has recently emphasized the political...

.... Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ., 2004). Pp. 216. $55. ISBN 0 – 271 – 02468 – 2 Nigel Leask. Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770 – 1840 (New York: Oxford Univ., 2002). Pp. 338...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1997). Pp.265. 30 ills. £47.50. ISBN 0-521-58490-6 John Ingamells, comp. A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive (New Haven: Yale Univ. for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997). Pp.1200...

... the following comments concerning the opening poem of the Divan,“Hegire”: “The poet considers himself a traveler. He has already arrived in the Orient. He delights in the customs, habits, objects, religious beliefs, and opinions: indeed, he does not counter- mand...

...: Papers from the Fifth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (München: Wilhelm Fink , 2008). Pp. 571. €69. ISBN 978-3-770-54402-8 Nicholas Hudson and Aaron Santesso, ed. Swift’s Travels: Eighteenth-Century British Satire and Its Legacy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. xiii + 304. $99. ISBN...

...James Watt Duke University Press 2006 Goldsmith’s Cosmopolitanism James Watt University of York Although imaginary travelers and voyages date back at least as far as the work of Lucian...

..., and conscious of the inferiority he felt at not having been to Italy, whither he still hoped to go) that “the grand object of traveling is to see the shores Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2006 doi 10.1215/00982601-2006-001 Copyright...