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Book SynopsisThe French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America.Trade Review“This book will be a necessary purchase for academic libraries with holdings in Jesuit Studies, Atlantic world studies, early Canadiana, and North American history, including First Nations/Native American history.” - Lisa J. M. Poirier, DePaul University, Chicago, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 681-683Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Bibliographical Abbreviations  List of Illustrations  Summaries of the Contents of Charlevoix’s Letters  Introduction  Preliminary Essay on the Origin of the Americans  Letter 1  Letter 2  Letter 3  Letter 4  Letter 5  Letter 6  Letter 7  Letter 8  Letter 9  Letter 10  Letter 11  Letter 12  Letter 13  Letter 14  Letter 15  Letter 16  Letter 17  Letter 18  Letter 19  Letter 20  Letter 21  Letter 22  Letter 23  Letter 24  Letter 25  Letter 26  Letter 27  Letter 28  Letter 29  Letter 30  Letter 31  Letter 32  Letter 33  Letter 34  Letter 35  Letter 36  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisCarnets de doute, qui propose une lecture novatrice de trois romans majeurs de J.M.G. Le Clézio (Le livre des fuites, Le chercheur d’or, La quarantaine), s’adresse aussi bien aux chercheurs et étudiants universitaires qu’à tout lecteur amateur de Le Clézio. A partir de microlectures qui prennent en compte le détail du texte et visent à faire ressortir les champs de tension qui sous-tendent l’œuvre, Isa Van Acker examine les modulations lecléziennes de la thématique du voyage dans leurs divers rapports avec la tradition littéraire et les paradoxes qui marquent l’époque contemporaine. En un temps où la notion de voyage fait l’objet de critiques courantes comme de multiples tentatives de revalorisation, l’écriture leclézienne se caractérise selon l’auteur par une part d’inquiétude et d’interrogation qui, transformant ses romans en autant de « carnets de doute », est constitutive à la fois de leur richesse insoupçonnée.Table of ContentsIntroduction La fuite ou le voyage mis en question : Le livre des fuites La quête ou le voyage réinventé : Le chercheur d’or L’errance ou le voyage fragilisé : La quarantaine Conclusion Bibliographie Remerciements Table des matières

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Book SynopsisWomen Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.Table of ContentsVassiliki KOLOCOTRONI and Efterpi MITSI: Introduction Efterpi MITSI: Lady Elizabeth Craven’s Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque Vassiliki MARKIDOU: Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece Evgenia SIFAKI: A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan’s Woman: Or Ida of Athens Maria KOUNDOURA: Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women’s Travel Writing and the Production of Identities Churnjeet KAUR MAHN: The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene’s Wayfaring Sketches TD OLVERSON: ‘A world without woman in any true sense’: Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer’s Flying Leaves from East and West Martha KLIRONOMOS: British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930 Artemis LEONTIS: Eva Palmer’s Distinctive Greek Journey Christina DOKOU: ‘No Place Like Home’: Gillian Bouras and the ‘Others’ Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales Asimina KARAVANTA: The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace’s Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf’s Cassandra Contributors Index

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