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Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611) : early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity
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Din-Kariuki, Natalya (2024) Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611) : early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity. Textual Practice, 38 (2). doi:10.1080/0950236X.2024.2317008 ISSN 0950-236X.
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Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2317008
Abstract
Despite its increasing prominence in university syllabi and anthologies, travel writing continues to be excluded from the canon of early modern literature. Its exclusion can be attributed to the view, articulated explicitly and implicitly, that its formal and stylistic conventions render it insufficiently ‘literary’. Such assessments, however, reveal a tendency to read early modern travel accounts using aesthetic criteria that are anachronistic, disconnected from the discursive contexts in which these accounts were originally written and read. This article examines one of the genre’s most distinctive features, one which has shaped its relationship to notions of literary value and canonicity: its preoccupation with particulars, something early modern and modern readers alike characterise as ‘tedious’. Focussing on Thomas Coryate’s eponymous Coryats Crudities (1611), it situates the particularity of early modern travel writing within the reconstructed contexts of classical rhetoric, early modern poetics, and travel advice, placing especial emphasis on the rhetorical quality of enargeia, or vividness. In addition to offering a fresh assessment of the Crudities and modelling a new approach to the study of travel writing more generally, the article reflects on the ways in which we can expand our sense of what early modern literature might be said to comprise.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Textual Practice | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge Journals | ||||||
ISSN: | 0950-236X | ||||||
Official Date: | 14 February 2024 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0950236X.2024.2317008 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Description: | In special issue "The Medieval and Early Modern Canon" ed. Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 February 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 February 2024 | ||||||
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