Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel

Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James

Author: Percy G. Adams
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780813151052

About the Author

Percy G. Adams, Lindsay Young Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tennessee, is the author of Travelers and Travel Liars, 1600-1800 and editor and translator of Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York.

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