

An edition of Traveling in Place (2013)
A History of Armchair Travel
By Bernd Stiegler
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
-
Description:
How a house arrest in 18th century France led to a new genre of travel literature involving close reportage of small places requiring little or no travel, and how the genre developed over the ensuing centuries.
subjects: travel, literature, Travel in literature, Literature, history and criticism
People: Xavier de Maistre