English travel writing from pilgrimages to postcolonial explorations
By: Barbara Korte ; translated by Catherine Matthias.
Publisher: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- History and criticism.; British -- Foreign countries -- Historiography.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Decolonization in literature.; Travel writing -- History.; Travel in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index.
"Chapter 8 on postcolonial travel writing is an addition to the German version and was newly written for the present volume"--Prelim. note.