The novelty of the novel form and the dialectical influence of travel literature in eighteenth century England.
This essay seeks to discuss the importance of the dialectical contribution of travel literature towards the form of the novel. In eighteenth-century England , an increase in transnational trade and commerce and the expansion of the British Empire, coincided with the arrival of the novel within the l...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48722 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This essay seeks to discuss the importance of the dialectical contribution of travel literature towards the form of the novel. In eighteenth-century England , an increase in transnational trade and commerce and the expansion of the British Empire, coincided with the arrival of the novel within the literary arena of established genres. This paper will focus on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). These three texts were best-sellers during the eighteenth century and each text employs a different treatment of the theme of travel. |
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