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by Mary Baine Campbell


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Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination.Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims, crusaders, merchants, discoverers, even armchair fantasists such as Mandeville, as well as the writings of Marco Polo, Columbus, and Walter Raleigh. According to Campbell, these travel accounts are exotic because they bear witness to alienated experiences; European travelers, while claiming to relate fact, were often passing on monstrous projections. She contends that their writing not only documented but also made possible the conquest of the peoples whom she travelers described, and she shows how travel literature contributed to the genesis of the modern novel and the modern life sciences.

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  • Title The Witness and the Other World
  • Author Mary Baine Campbell
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 1988-10-11
  • ISBN 9780801421372 / 0801421373
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88047720
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.935

About the author

Mary Baine Campbell is Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is also the author of Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, also from Cornell, in addition to two books of poetry.

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