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The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis
The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Travel literature has been understood to comment on the expectations and impressions of the traveler as they encountered foreign spaces, customs, and people. There has been an unspoken understanding, at best, that travelers who wrote their tales used these foreign spaces to engage in debates that were meaningful to their domestic audience. However, the author has been central to much of the analysis, disconnecting travel literature from other linguistic exercises that more directly offered observations that were directly rooted in domestic culture. Author-centered analysis isolates the traveler from the wider world in which they engaged. It also ignores the other …