Search for dissertations about: "British Travel Literature"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words British Travel Literature.
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1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE
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2. The Scandinavian sporting tour : A case study in geographical imagology
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3. Noun Phrases in British Travel Texts : A Corpus-Based Study
Abstract : This study is a corpus-based investigation of the structure and variation of noun phrases in three types of British texts on tourism and travel. Based on their publishing formats, the corpus texts are divided into three Text categories: tourist brochures, newspaper feature articles dealing with travel and tourism, and travel guides. READ MORE
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4. Victorian and Edwardian Travellers and the Mid-Nordic Region : A Study in Geographical Imagology and Tourism
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5. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden, c.1770-1865
Abstract : Sweden of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was visited and toured by a number of British author-travellers, whose subsequently published views of and on the country and its people are examined and presented in this thesis. Using as primary sources British-published monographs deriving, wholly or in part, from an experienced Sweden of c. READ MORE