Transparency and Truth: Prefatory Material in Fictional and Non-Fictional Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing

This paper focuses on the paratexts, more specifically the prefatory material, found in eighteenth-century travel accounts. We will argue that as the century progresses the prefaces change in terms of their complexity. This question of complexity is approached from three distinct perspectives. On a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruth Menzies, Sandhya Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2013-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/531