'Travel Fact and Travel Fiction' contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.
Author(s): Zweder von Martels (ed.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 55
Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: Leiden
Plates vii
Preface ix
Contributors x
Introduction: The Eye and the Mind's Eye xi
1. The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World / DETLEV FEHLING 1
2. Travel Descriptions in the 'Argonautica' of Apollonius Rhodius / M. A. HARDER 16
3. Alexander the Great and Ancient Travel Stories / W. J. AERTS 30
4. Egeria the Voyager, or the Technology of Remote Sensing in Late Antiquity / ANDREW PALMER 39
5. William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices / PETER JACKSON 54
6. Marco Polo's Voyages: The Conflict between Confirmation and Observation / MARTIN GOSMAN 72
7. Between Mande ville and Columbus: 'Tvoyage' by Joos van Ghistele / ISTVÁN BEJCZY 85
8. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus / VALERIE I. J. FLINT 94
9. Different Readings of Hanno's Voyage from the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century — From Pure Erudition to Ideological Debate / MONIQUE MUND-DOPCHIE 111
10. Writing in Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome, and Renaissance France / G. HUGO TUCKER 120
11. The Colouring Effect of Attic Style and Stoicism in Busbequius's 'Turkish Letters' / ZWEDER VON MARTELS 140
13. Barlaeus's Description of the Dutch Colony in Brazil / A. J. E. HARMSEN 158
14. Gryphius in Italy / PETER SKRINE 170
15. The Traveller-Author and his Role in Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts / JILL BEPLER 183
16. Thomas Penson: Precursor of the Sentimental Traveller / C. D. VAN STRIEN 194
17. Goethe's and Stolberg's Italian Journeys and the Romantic Ideology of Art / ROGER PAULIN 207
18 The Wheel of Time is Rolling for an End' / JAN H. A. LOKIN 220
Index 233
