This article explores a structural shift in techniques of representation in eighteenth-century travel literature as a reaction to the changing needs of cameralist governance, one in which space is no longer grasped as enyclopedic and all-encompassing. Instead of being understood as static territory, space is increasingly represented as a dynamic and continually updatable dataset. As a consequence, travel literature itself goes in search of new representational modes appropriate to this new understanding of space. And as I show, the medium of the book becomes increasingly problematic in this regard. As early modern travel literature (ars Apodemica) largely splits in the eighteenth century into statistics and geography on the one hand and lit...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century will be the periods where signific...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
Buschmeier M. Fantasies of Immediacy, or, the Boundaries of the Book in Eighteenth Century Travel Na...
Buschmeier M. Fantasies of Immediacy, or, the Boundaries of the Book in Eighteenth Century Travel Na...
"Travel Literature and the Development of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century France" follows the evolut...
Remarkable Transactions argues that eighteenth-century travel literature enabled British subjects to...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
This article analyses practices of appropriation at work in French travel book reviews at the turn o...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Despite increased recognition of the importance of the material nature of the book to our understand...
This thesis traces the interchanges of culture and cognition that helped to produce a unique eightee...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century will be the periods where signific...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
Buschmeier M. Fantasies of Immediacy, or, the Boundaries of the Book in Eighteenth Century Travel Na...
Buschmeier M. Fantasies of Immediacy, or, the Boundaries of the Book in Eighteenth Century Travel Na...
"Travel Literature and the Development of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century France" follows the evolut...
Remarkable Transactions argues that eighteenth-century travel literature enabled British subjects to...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
This article analyses practices of appropriation at work in French travel book reviews at the turn o...
Linking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this...
Despite increased recognition of the importance of the material nature of the book to our understand...
This thesis traces the interchanges of culture and cognition that helped to produce a unique eightee...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century will be the periods where signific...
Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses investigates the i...