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Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre

Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (1625-1671)

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Colloque international

Voyage et amitié

Lieu : Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse

Date : 3 et 4 juin 2021

Organisateurs : Nicolas Bourguinat (Université de Strasbourg) et Nikol Dziub (Université de Haute-Alsace...

État de la recherche sur les récits de voyage entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine (XVIII^e-XIX^e siècles)

Journée d’étude organisée par Matthias Soubise (ENS de Lyon) et Daniel Lopez (Université Clermont-Auvergne), avec le soutien de l’ENS de Lyon...

État de la recherche sur les récits de voyage entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine (XVIII^e-XIX^e siècles)

Journée d’étude organisée par Matthias Soubise (ENS de Lyon) et Daniel Lopez (Université Clermont-Auvergne), avec le soutien de...

L’entrée en littérature du récit de voyage, au tournant du XIXe siècle, manifeste un glissement de point de vue, un changement du projet d’écriture marqué par le passage d’une économie descriptive centrée sur l’objet à une économie narrative fondée sur le sujet, ou encore par la mutation d’un...

Le programme de recherche intitulé « Géographies imaginaires : le voyage-prétexte comme machine à penser » (https://imaginaires.hypotheses.org) prévoie d’éditer en ligne dans la revue Astrolabe (...

The transcendence of an individual into the broader mythology of a culture has a tendency to spark conflict over the narrative of that person’s life, which may continue for generations, even centuries in the case of Captain James Cook.

Biography, or life writing, in the eighteenth century is understood as an important component in the construction of celebrity figures, where earlier hagiographic perspectives progressively merged with a secular, reflexive focus on verisimilitude. Brian Cowan discusses these...

Captain Cook’s voyages gained fame among the British and European public not only through the publication of Cook’s amended journals by Hawkesworth and Douglas, but also thanks to the countless visual evidence that was collected during the expeditions, either in the form of...

 The pocket globe published by John and William Cary in April 1791 was not intended to be a serious scientific instrument.^[1]...

This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages relating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the minute descriptions of the...

For the 250th anniversary of Cook’s expeditions, a large number of events are being organized around the world, often with public funding. These events are generally situated in a space of tension between commemoration and celebration, and also...

It is well known that the eighteenth century had a craving for travel literature. To satisfy the demand of a growing readership, booksellers and printers would carry travel books written in their original languages but also, and mostly, in translation. Translation enhanced...

The following article deals with two accounts of state-sponsored voyages undertaken in the early careers of renown navigators Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook in the 1760s. As was then becoming the norm, their expeditions included a variety of objectives, meaning...

Published accounts of voyages of exploration have often been read as authentic, eyewitness reports of what occurred during the expedition, but rarely as literary and cultural constructions, sometimes very different from the texts they are based upon.

Halfway around the world from where Capt. James Cook recorded some of his greatest achievements, and where he met his death, sits a relic of his voyages “round the world.” Deep in the Pocumtuc Valley, in rural Massachusetts, lies Historic Deerfield, a living history museum...

In chapter XII of the fourth and final book of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, the eponymous character, Lemuel Gulliver, mentioned a task he had to fulfil upon his return to “civilisation”, so to speak: “I confess, it was whispered to me...

Following the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) there was a period of peace until the onset of the War of American Independence. There was intense rivalry between the major powers – France and Great Britain – regarding the acquisition of new colonies. Now the ships formerly engaged...