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English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century: Exploring Genres.(Book Review)

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| January 01, 2005 | Benlloch, Ines | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century: Exploring Genres. By Jean Vivies; translated by Claire Davison. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2002. ix, 134 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-7546-0448-9.

This book explores the boundaries between the emergent genre of the novel and the popular travel narratives at the end of the eighteenth century. Jean Vivies offers an overview of the problems encountered when a narrative genre is defined within the constraints of literary labels. As the author concludes, "Genre is not to be taken as a pre-existent category ... but as a subject of reflection that is itself unreliable and problematic" (109). Looking at travel narratives as part of a continuum in the evolution of the…

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