Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn paperback, title spine and frontcover, 8vo: [iv], 224pp., [xij], 15 contributions, notes, bibliographical notes, table of contents. Contents: 1. Verina Jones: Between History, Fairytale, and Gothic: The Journey in I Promessi Sposi. 2. Linda Ledford-Miller: French Travellers to Guatemala in the Nineteenth Century. 3. Sylvie André: The Inner Adventure in the Mariage de Loti and Typee. 4. Dennis Porter: Modernism and the Dream of Travel. 5. Horst Hina: The Traveller and the Native: Looking Both Ways. A Comparison between George Sand, Un hiver à Majorque and Llorenç Villalonga, Un estiu a Mallorca. 6. Ann Lawson Lucas: Salgari, the Atlas and the Microscope. 7. Peter Ross and Blanche Hampton: Don’t Trust the Locals – European Explorers in Amazonia. 8. Brian Moloney: A Sentimental Ulysses: Sterne, James Joyce and Italo Svevo’s Corto viaggio sentimentale. 9. Joseph Farrell: The Age of Icarus – the Adventure of Flight in Gabriele d’Annunzio and Lauro de Bosis. 10. Walter Musolino: The Story of O, or the Wandering Egos of Ulysses in the Novels of Cesare Pavese. 11. Luc Renders: Arthur Rimbaud and Breyten Breytenbach: Two Authors in Search of Africa. 12. Anne Marie Miraglia: Canadian and Québécois Writers in Search of America. 13. Sharon Wood: Strange Euphorias and Promised Lands: The Travel Writing of Anna Maria Ortese. 14. Pierre Daprini: The Existential Voyage: Modiano and La Place de l’Étoile. 15. Roberto J. González-Casanovas: Renaissance Iberian Narratives of (Self)Discovery: The Voyage as History, Story, and Myth. Very fine copy – as new., Volume 11: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature.