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Author Tobienne, Francis, author.

Title Mandeville's travails : merging travel, theory, and commentary / Francis Tobienne Jr.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 153 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Travel as Ideological Belief; Chapter Two: Problems, Observations, and Memory; Chapter Three: Regularities and Hypothesis; Chapter Four: Recorded Experiment and Reproducibility; Chapter Five: (A) Heuristic; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary Mandeville's Travails challenges the less than serious stereotyping of travel as both genre and theoretical framework. Instead, and by examining the position of travel, a deeper sense of the human species can be appreciated beyond the displaced borders of language, ritual, and culture.
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Subject Mandeville, John, Sir -- Travel.
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Travel.
Mandeville, John, Sir. Itinerarium -- Criticism and interpretation.
Itinerarium (Mandeville, John, Sir)
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
Voyages and travels.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Travel, Medieval.
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Travel, Medieval.
Travelers' writings, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
Other Form: Print version: Tobienne, Francis. Mandeville's travails. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2016 9781611496031 (DLC) 2016012480
ISBN 9781611496048 (electronic book)
1611496047 (electronic book)
9781611496031 (hardcover alkaline paper)