{"product_id":"imperial-eyes-travel-writing-and-transculturation-9780415438179","title":"Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpdated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long-awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Imperial Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e is a seminal work in the study of travel writing, demonstrating an inventive use of canonical and non-canonical sources from the archive of European travel writing, and from the colonial 'contact zone.' Its critical insights are drawn eclectically from discourse analysis, gender criticism, postcolonialism, anthropology, and literary theory, drawn together with unflagging political energy. It remains a model of its kind.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Nigel Leask, Glasgow University, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for 1st edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[an] incisive and far-reaching study ... Pratt writes with clarity, passion and a lively wit.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"an engaging and exciting book.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eResearch in African Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"a fascinating book ... thoroughly, even excitingly, readable.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eAsahi Evening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[a] compelling account.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSociety and Space\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1st edition contents  List of Illustrations  Preface        Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone      Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800    Science, planetary consciousness, interiors      Narrating the anti-conquest      Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity      Eros and Abolition      Part II The reinvention of América, 1800-50    Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América      Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales      Reinventing América\/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning      Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980     From the Victoria N’yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador    Notes  Index","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018147070295,"sku":"9780415438179","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415438179.jpg?v=1750775795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imperial-eyes-travel-writing-and-transculturation-9780415438179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}