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Article: Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: "From an Antique Land," by Nigd Leask. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 328. 19 illustrations. $70.00 cloth.
This complicated book reads quite well cover-to-cover. Nigel Leask has woven several strands together to craft persuasive narratives of the histories of science and literary romanticism--the "curiosity" and "aesthetics" of the title. Leask also refers to (post)colonial theories and illustrates nicely how a multidimensional analysis of the context of travel writing can inform those generalizations.
The book is organized as a series of stories about travels to the "antique lands" ...