• Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel ; 1. Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange ; 2. Curious Narratives and the Problem of Creidt: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile' ; 3. 'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania: pt. 1 Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants; pt. 2 Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' ; 4. Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque ; 5. Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India ; 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America (the Impossibility of Personal Narrative) ; Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity ; Bibliography ; Index

... addresses the intersections between space and time more fully than any other recent book on Romantic travel ... Leask's detailed study contributes valuably to the body of criticism on Romantic travel literature and, more broadly, to criticism on Romantic conceptions of place and space.

• Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel ; 1. Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange ; 2. Curious Narratives and the Problem of Creidt: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile' ; 3. 'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania: pt. 1 Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants; pt. 2 Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' ; 4. Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque ; 5. Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India ; 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America (the Impossibility of Personal Narrative) ; Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity ; Bibliography ; Index

... addresses the intersections between space and time more fully than any other recent book on Romantic travel ... Leask's detailed study contributes valuably to the body of criticism on Romantic travel literature and, more broadly, to criticism on Romantic conceptions of place and space.

• Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel ; 1. Cycles of Accumulation, Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange ; 2. Curious Narratives and the Problem of Creidt: James Bruce's 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile' ; 3. 'Young Menmon' and Romantic Egyptomania: pt. 1 Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants; pt. 2 Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' ; 4. Indian Travel Writing and the Imperial Picturesque ; 5. Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India ; 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America (the Impossibility of Personal Narrative) ; Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of Popular Curiosity ; Bibliography ; Index

... addresses the intersections between space and time more fully than any other recent book on Romantic travel ... Leask's detailed study contributes valuably to the body of criticism on Romantic travel literature and, more broadly, to criticism on Romantic conceptions of place and space.