Friendship in Travel Literature: Uses and Representations (18th–20th Centuries)

This book is the first to examine the role and portrayals of friendship in travel literature. Drawing on a body of work spanning the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it combines a historical perspective with a literary analysis of travel writings and examines their poetic style in order to better analyse how friendship on a journey is constructed in and through writing. Exploring literary and pictorial works ranging from Le Président de Brosses to Ella Maillart, it analyses the relationships the traveller forges with a spatial as well as cultural otherness, and the way in which they attempt to come to terms with the foreign, either by describing it to friends and family or by forming friendly relationships with its inhabitants.

Publication date: 11/09/2024
Number of pages: 410
EAN: 9791034402212