Travel and experience in early modern English literature
[Book]
Melanie Ord.
First edition
New York
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
Travel and education in Roger Ascham's The scholemaster (1570) -- Travel and prodigality in John Lyly's Euphues: the anatomy of wyt (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) -- The new science and travel method -- Textual experience in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611) : reading, writing, traveling -- Traveling through texts : John Dunton's A voyage round the world (1691) and the art of digression.
Travel and Experience examines the early modern cultural debate over theoretical versus experiential forms of learning as centered on the subject of travel. It considers changing experiences of and perspectives on travel in this period as registered in travel writing and represented in a range of discourses on travel, including those found in educational treatises, works of imaginative fiction, and texts on natural"Travel and Experience examines the early modern cultural debate over theoretical versus experiential forms of learning as centered on the subject of travel. It considers changing experiences of and perspectives on travel in this period as registered in travel writing and represented in a range of discourses on travel, including those found in educational treatises, works of imaginative fiction, and texts on natural"Travel and Experience examines the early modern cultural debate over theoretical versus experiential forms of learning as centered on the subject of travel. It considers changing experiences of and perspectives on travel in this period as registered in travel writing and represented in a range of discourses on travel, including those found in educational treatises, works of imaginative fiction, and texts on natural