{"product_id":"curiosity-and-the-aesthetics-of-travel-writing-1770-1840-from-an-antique-land-9780199247004","title":"Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840: From an Antique Land'","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nigel Leask\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the \"antique lands\" of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, \u003cem\u003eCuriosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47590803505303,"sku":"9780199247004","price":12538.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199247004.webp?v=1774970614","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/curiosity-and-the-aesthetics-of-travel-writing-1770-1840-from-an-antique-land-9780199247004","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}