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Auteur(s) : Parr, Anthony (1949-....)
Titre(s) : Renaissance mad voyages [Texte imprimé] : experiments in early modern English travel / Anthony Parr
Publication : Farnham (GB) ; Burlington (Vt.) : Ashgate, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-237 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm + erratum
Collection : Cultures of play, 1300-1700
Lien à la collection : Cultures of play, 1300-1700
Comprend : A very English journey? ; Strange returns and performances ; Two prodigious feats
; Bills of adventure ; Gambling, wagers and the law ; Orpheus in the underworld.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index
A vogue for travel a "stuntsa (TM) flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s:
playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively
appear to be a response to particular innovations and developments in English culture.
This study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the curious phenomenon
of a "madde voiagesa (TM), as the writer William Rowley called them. Anthony Parr
shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and others conceived it) had surprisingly deep
and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile
custom, and in literary culture. Looking in detail at several of the best-documented
exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of such ventures during the period in
question; but also reaches back to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents,
and considers their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure in
later centuries. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together literary and historical enquiry
in order to address the implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend.
Parr's investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to extensive
research on the origins of the wager on travel and its role in the expansion of English
tourism and trading activity
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Voyages -- Dans la littérature
Récits de voyages anglais -- 1500-1800
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472457097. - ISBN 1472457099 (rel.). - ISBN 9781472457103 (erroné). - ISBN
9781472457110 (erroné). - ISBN 1472457102. - ISBN 9781472457103. - ISBN 1472457110.
- ISBN 9781472457110
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45021637t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45021637
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