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" British narratives of exploration : "
editor, Frederic Regard.
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BL
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799415
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b619474
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editor, Frederic Regard.
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British narratives of exploration : : case studies on the self and other\ editor, Frederic Regard.
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London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009
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Empires in perspective
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(247 pages).
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1851965955
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: 185196620X
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: 9781851965953
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: 9781851966202
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Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones - Frederic Regard Part I: Fantasy, Wonder and Mimicry: Proto-Ethnography from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 1 Encountering Africa: Uses of the Other in The Book of John Mandeville (1357) - Kofi Campbell 2 Naming the Other, Claiming the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters: from Mandeville to John Nicholl (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623) - Ladan Niayesh and Nick Myers 3 False Play and Dumb Show in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628) - Sophie Lemercier-Goddard 4 Waterali Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana (1596) - Line Cottegnies Part II: Distance in Question: Translating the Other in the Eighteenth Century 5 Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) - Robert Sayre 6 The (He)art of First Encounter at Tahiti: Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767) - Sandhya Patel 7 Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage around the World (1768-1771) - Anne Dromart 8 Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-1777) - Christian Moser 9 The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801) - Cheryl Cundell Part III: Stereotypes Undermined: Shifting the Self in the Nineteenth Century 10 John Franklin and the Idea of North: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 -Catherine Lanone 11 Cultivating that mutual friendship': Commerce, Diplomacy and Self-Representation in Hugh Clapperton's Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (1829) - Anne-Pascale Bruneau 12 Trying to Understand: James Tod among the Rajputs (1829, 1832) - Florence D'Souza 13 Shifting Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial 'I' in Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) - Jennifer Scott 14 Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary (1831-1836) and The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) - Virginia Richter 15 Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing: Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution (1851-1856) - Frederic Regard 16 Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other: Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890) - Nicoletta Brazzelli
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Geographical discoveries in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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PR756.T72E358 2009
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Frďřic Regard
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