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Download or read book Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson written by Wendy Laura Belcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.

Download or read book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Golden Legends written by W. B. Carnochan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.

Download or read book A Voyage to Abyssinia written by Jerónimo Lobo and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of British Travel Writing written by Barbara Schaff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.