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VOYAGES AND VISIONS Critical Views In the same series The New Museology edited by Peter Vergo Renaissance Bodies edited by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn Modernism in Design edited by Paul Greenhalgh Interpreting Contemporary Art edited by Stephen Bann and William Allen The Portrait in Photography edited by Graham Clarke Utopias and the Millennium edited by Krishan Kumar and Stephen Bann The Cultures ofCollecting edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal Boundaries in China edited by John Hay Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity edited by Stephen Bann A New Philosophy ofhistory edited by Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner Parisian Fields edited by Michael Sheringham Sculpture and Its Reproductions edited by Anthony Hughes and Erich Ranfft VOYAG E S AN D VISIONS Towards a Cultural History of Travel Edited by Jas´ Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubiés REAKTION BOOKS ad amicitiam Published by Reaktion Books Ltd 11 Rathbone Place, Londonw1p 1de,uk First published 1999 Copyright ©Reaktion Books 1999 All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission ofthe publishers. Series design by Humphrey Stone Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history oftravel. – (Critical views) 1. Travel 2. Voyages and travels i. Elsner, Jas ii. Rubies, Joan-Pau 910 isbn 1 86189 020 6 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. viii running head
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