Jas Elsner, and Joan-Pau Rubies, Voyages and Visions

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VOYAGES AND VISIONS
Critical Views
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VOYAG E S
AN D VISIONS
Towards a Cultural History of Travel
Edited by
Jas´ Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés
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Contents
Notes on the Editors and Contributors vi
Introduction Jas´ Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés 1
1 From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya: The Rise and Fall of
Subjectivity in Early Modern Travel Narrative Jesús Carrillo 57
2 Futility in the New World: Narratives ofTravel in
Sixteenth-CenturyAmerica Joan-Pau Rubiés 74
3 ‘Rubbing up against others’: Montaigne on Pilgrimage
Wes Williams 101
4 The Philosopher as Traveller: Bernier’s Orient Peter Burke 124
5 Looking for Virgil’s Tomb: The End ofthe Grand Tour and
the Cosmopolitan Ideal in Europe Melissa Calaresu 138
6 Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and
the Orientalist Geography ofthe New Imperial Age (1760–1830)
Michael T. Bravo 162
7 ‘The Ghost in Chapultepec’: Fanny Calderón de la Barca,
William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel
Accounts Nigel Leask 184
8 Partners: Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas,
1850s–1950s Peter H. Hansen 210
9 The European Journey in Postwar American Fiction
and Film Kasia Boddy 232
10 Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of
Interstellar Travel Edward James 252
References 272
Select Bibliography 328
Acknowledgements 330
Photographic Acknowledgements 331
Index 332
Notes on theEditors and Contributors
ja´s elsneris Reader in the History ofArt at the Courtauld Institute, University of
London. He is author ofArt and the Roman Viewer(1995) and Imperial Rome and
Christian Triumph(1998). He edited The Cultures ofCollecting(1994) with Roger
Cardinal in this series.
joan-pau rubiésis Lecturer in History at the University ofReading. He has edited
Shifting Cultures: Interaction and Discourse in the Expansion of Europe(1995).
His book Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance:South India Through European
Eyes,1250–1625 is soon to be published.
kasia boddyis Lecturer in American Literature in the Department ofEnglish at
University College, London. Her Interviews with Contemporary American Writers
will be published soon.
michael t. bravo is University Research Fellow in the Department ofAnthro-
pology, University of Manchester. He is author of The Accuracy of Ethnoscience
(1996) and is currently working on a historical anthropology of Inuit techniques
oftravel.
peter burkeis Professor ofCultural History at the University ofCambridge and
Fellow ofEmmanuel College. He has written many books on early modern cultural
history, ofwhich the most recent are Varieties of Cultural History(1997) and The
Fortunes of the Courtier(1995).
melissa calaresuis Fellow and Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century intellectual history and is
currently writing a book entitled Enlightenment to Revolution in Naples: From
Vico to Pagano.
jesús carrillo is Lecturer in the History and Theory ofArt at the Autonomous
University ofMadrid. He is currently writing a monograph on the representation
ofnature in the early chronicles ofAmerica.
peter h. hansenis Associate Professor in History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Massachusetts. He has written widely on British mountaineering and imperial
culture from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
Notes on the Editors and Contributors vii
edward james is Professor of History at the University of Reading. Besides his
many books on medieval subjects, he has a passion for the history ofscience fiction.
He is the editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fictionand
author ofScience Fiction in the Twentieth Century(1994).
nigel leaskis Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of
Queens’ College. He is an expert on Romanticism and is author, among other
things, ofBritish Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire(1992).
wes williams is Lecturer in French at New College, Oxford. He has recently
published ‘The Undiscovered Country’: Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French
Renaissance(1998) and is currently writing a study on the representation ofmonsters
in the Renaissance.
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