1st Edition
The Inn and the Traveller Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel
By Will McMorran
Copyright 2002
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. This wide-ranging comparative study explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes's "Don... Read more
Introduction; 1: Before Palomeque: Hospitality and Storytelling; 2: Don Quijote The Inn and the Castle; 3: Le Roman comique Town, Country and the Provincial Inn; 4: Fielding I The Topography of Travel; 5: Fielding II The Topology of Travel; 6: Tristram Shandy Narrative as Travelogue; 7: Jacques le Fataliste et son maître Travelogue as Narrative; Conclusion
Biography
Will McMorran
