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Page 154
... travel literature , too , had become highly formulaic . The traveler was not the Renaissance patriot - dreamer but an opportunistic wanderer . These travelers were usually blown off course , shipwrecked , captured by pirates , or ...
... travel literature , too , had become highly formulaic . The traveler was not the Renaissance patriot - dreamer but an opportunistic wanderer . These travelers were usually blown off course , shipwrecked , captured by pirates , or ...
Page 233
... travel literature of his time give him writing experience and knowledge unavailable to any writer before Melville . Whether he drew upon the pattern of crime literature , pirate biography , voyages to Ceylon , or accounts of the Great ...
... travel literature of his time give him writing experience and knowledge unavailable to any writer before Melville . Whether he drew upon the pattern of crime literature , pirate biography , voyages to Ceylon , or accounts of the Great ...
Page 259
... Travel Liars , esp . pp . 142-61 , and idem , Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel , pp . 73 , 163-64 , 178. Captain Singleton , for example , simply copies pp . 188-271 of Knox's Ceylon . Boies Penrose dates the practice ...
... Travel Liars , esp . pp . 142-61 , and idem , Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel , pp . 73 , 163-64 , 178. Captain Singleton , for example , simply copies pp . 188-271 of Knox's Ceylon . Boies Penrose dates the practice ...
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