Holmberg, Eva Johanna,

Writing mobile lives, 1500-1700 / Eva Johanna Holmberg. - 1 online resource (75 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in travel writing, 2632-7090 . - Cambridge elements. Elements in travel writing, .

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Open Access.

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the 'fashioned' and portrayed selves and 'inner worlds' of travellers - personal memory, autobiographical practices, and lived yet often heavily mediated travel experiences - it opens up perspectives to travel writing in its many modes, that extend both before and after 'lived' travels into their many pre- and afterlives in textual form. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

9781009180726 (ebook)


Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700

PR756.T72 / H66 2024

820.9/3209031