The Fictitious World Traveller: The Swede on Timor and the Noble Savage Imagery

Travel writing soared in the Western world in the early-modern era with the widening geographical knowledge. This was accompanied by a genre of travel fiction. The present study analyses a short Swedish novella from 1815, Swensken på Timor (The Swede on Timor), “translated” by Christina Cronhjelm f...

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Main Author: Hans Hägerdal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2014-12-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2144