Percy G Adams

Broschiertes Buch

Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel

Beschreibung

Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James

Autor

Percy G. Adams, Lindsay Young Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tennessee, is the author of Travelers and Travel Liars, 1600-1800 and editor and translator of Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780813151052
• ISBN-10: 0813151058
• Artikelnr.: 41089774