TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,Mary Baine TI - The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 SN - 9781501721090 AV - G89 .C3 1988 U1 - 809/.93591 19 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Difference (Psychology) in literature KW - European literature KW - Renaissance, 1450-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - Europeans KW - Foreign countries KW - History KW - Exoticism in literature KW - Geography, Medieval KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Travel in literature KW - Travel writing KW - Voyages and travels KW - Literary Studies KW - Medieval & Renaissance Studies KW - Travel Guides & Travel Writing KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part One. The East --; 1. The Scriptural East: Egeria, Arculf, and the Written Pilgrimage --; 2. The Fabulous East: "Wonder Books" and Grotesque Facts --; 3. The Utter East: Merchant and Missionary Travels during the "Mongol Peace" --; 4. "That othere half": Mandeville Naturalizes the East --; Part Two. The West --; 5. "The end of the East": Columbus Discovers Paradise --; 6. "Inward Feeling": Ralegh and the Penetration of the Interior --; Epilogue: A Brief History of the Future --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721090/original ER -