Early Modern Travel Writing and Thomas More’s Utopia: An Attempt at Literary Interpretation

2012 ◽  
pp. 399-410
Author(s):  
Olga Grądziel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Literary Interpretation

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Europe

There were few subjects that animated people in early modern Europe more than lying. The subject is endlessly represented and discussed in literature; treatises on rhetoric and courtiership; theology, philosophy, and jurisprudence; travel writing; pamphlets and news books; science and empirical observation; popular culture, especially books about strange, unexplained phenomena; and, of course, legal discourse. For many, lying could be controlled and limited even if not eradicated; for others, lying was a necessary element of a casuistical tradition, liars balancing complicated issues and short-term pragmatic considerations in the expectation of solving more problems than they caused through their deceit....

scholarly journals Early Modern Grand Tourer in Poland-Lithuania

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (4 (244)) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Jakub Basista
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Narrow Definition

Early Modern Grand Tourer in Poland-Lithuania. Fiction or Real Possibility? In the last fifty or so years, Grand Tour has become a very popular and extensively researched phenomenon. Although mainstream researchers have analyzed various aspects of the Grand Tour, they have tended to adopt a narrow definition limited to the experiences of young English gentlemen undertaking a study tour of Italy and France. This article poses a somewhat provocative question: was the Grand Tour feasible as a study tour of an English gentleman visiting Poland- Lithuania? Based on contemporary travel writing, the author reveals the challenges and the difficult logistics of such an undertaking.  

In the Air

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-75
Author(s):  
George Oppitz-Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Christopher Marlowe ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Lesson ◽  
Unique Ability

Few plays insist more adamantly upon a connection between travel and moral loss than The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Here it is argued that the play written by Christopher Marlowe was performed by the English Comedians in Frankfurt-am-Main as early as Autumn 1592, and that it remained in their repertoire throughout the 1590s—before an English play-text was published (in 1604), indeed before its first recorded English performance (in 1594). The play’s unique ability to reconcile a wide array of comic materials to a powerful moral lesson recommended it to itinerant theatre groups. Yet the tonal unevenness of the extant English editions has been an evergreen concern for editors and critics. Having established that the play was performed abroad and thus adapted for many different audiences and scenarios, this chapter suggests that the confusing middle of the extant text(s) represents the modularity of its structure in the 1590s. Marlowe’s ultimate source had been published in Frankfurt in 1587, and merchants at the city’s fair had practical interest and expertise in contracts of all kinds. The performance of the English play there raises many exciting new questions not only of literary interpretation but also of knowledge transfer in early modern Europe.

Travel and Travel Writing

2009 ◽  
pp. 351-363
Author(s):  
Maria Pretzler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Modern Geography ◽  
The City ◽  
Act One ◽  
Greek World

Greek travellers tried to take their city with them: travel is typically conducted as a civic act, one justified and defined by one's tie to the city: trade, for example, or martial aggression, or colonization. This article discusses the range of travel experiences reflected in surviving literature. The study of ancient travel focuses on the process of travelling, on individual travellers' movements and their reactions to particular journeys and places. The evidence is therefore mainly literary, with valuable additions from epigraphic sources. The remains of sites that were particularly attractive to ancient travellers, depictions of their means of transport, shipwrecks, and traces of ancient roads can add further information. Greek travel literature had a strong influence on early modern geography and ethnography, and it still has an impact on how people understand the Greek world.

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