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 Ti-mor (The Swede on Timor), 'translated' by Christina C...

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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:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461367